Simple function outputting text. Exists in script languages.
echo is mainly used in batch (cmd) an example of these would be:
echo hello world
Questions tagged [echo]
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Echo newline in Bash prints literal \n
In Bash, tried this:
echo -e "Hello,\nWorld!"
But it doesn't print a newline, only \n. How can I make it print the newline?
I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal).
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How to change the output color of echo in Linux
I am trying to print a text in the terminal using echo command.
I want to print the text in a red color. How can I do that?
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Multi-line string with extra space (preserved indentation)
I want to write some pre-defined texts to a file with the following:
text="this is line one\n
this is line two\n
this is line three"
echo -e $text > filename
I'm expecting something like this:
this is line one
this is line two
this is line…
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Echo tab characters in bash script
How do I echo one or more tab characters using a bash script?
When I run this code
res=' 'x # res = "\t\tx"
echo '['$res']' # expect [\t\tx]
I get this
res=[ x] # that is [x]
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How can I suppress all output from a command using Bash?
I have a Bash script that runs a program with parameters. That program outputs some status (doing this, doing that...). There isn't any option for this program to be quiet. How can I prevent the script from displaying anything?
I am looking for…
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How does one output bold text in Bash?
I'm writing a Bash script that prints some text to the screen:
echo "Some Text"
Can I format the text? I would like to make it bold.
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How can I repeat a character in Bash?
How could I do this with echo?
perl -E 'say "=" x 100'
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How are echo and print different in PHP?
Possible Duplicate:
Reference: Comparing PHP's print and echo
Is there any major and fundamental difference between these two functions in PHP?
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Reference: Comparing PHP's print and echo
What is the difference between PHP's print and echo?
Stack Overflow has many questions asking about PHP's print and echo keyword usage.
The purpose of this post is to provide a canonical reference question and answer about PHP's print and echo…
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Why does 1...1 evaluate to 10.1?
I've just faced a little PHP snippet from 3v4l: https://3v4l.org/jmrZB
echo 1...1; //10.1
And I'm afraid I have no idea how to explain its results. Why is this considered valid at all?
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Echo a blank (empty) line to the console from a Windows batch file
When outputting status messages to the console from a Windows batch file, I want to output blank lines to break up the output. How do I do this?
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How can I echo HTML in PHP?
I want to conditionally output HTML to generate a page, so what's the easiest way to echo multiline snippets of HTML in PHP 4+? Would I need to use a template framework like Smarty?
echo '', "\n"; // I'm sure there's a better way!
echo…
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How to use shell commands in Makefile
I'm trying to use the result of ls in other commands (e.g. echo, rsync):
all:
FILES = $(shell ls)
echo $(FILES)
But I get:
make
FILES = Makefile file1.tgz file2.tgz…
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Why can't I specify an environment variable and echo it in the same command line?
Consider this snippet:
$ SOMEVAR=AAA
$ echo zzz $SOMEVAR zzz
zzz AAA zzz
Here I've set $SOMEVAR to AAA on the first line - and when I echo it on the second line, I get the AAA contents as expected.
But then, if I try to specify the variable on…
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How can I align the columns of tables in Bash?
I'd like to output a table format text. What I tried to do was echo the elements of an array with '\t', but it was misaligned.
My code
for((i=0;i
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