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.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" Copyright (c) 1997-2005
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.\" Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>. All rights reserved.
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.\" @(#)echo.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93
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.Nd produce message in a shell script
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prints its arguments on the standard output, separated by spaces.
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option is present, a newline is output following the arguments.
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to treat the escape sequences specially, as described in the following
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option is the default, and is provided solely for compatibility with
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Only one of the options
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If any of the following sequences of characters is encountered during
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output, the sequence is not output. Instead, the specified action is
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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A backspace character is output.
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Subsequent output is suppressed. This is normally used at the end of the
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last argument to suppress the trailing newline that
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would otherwise output.
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Output a newline character.
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Output a carriage return.
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Output a (horizontal) tab character.
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Output a vertical tab.
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.It Li \e0 Ns Ar digits
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Output the character whose value is given by zero to three digits.
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If there are zero digits, a nul character is output.
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Remember that backslash is special to the shell and needs to be escaped.
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To output a message to standard error, say
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.D1 echo message \*[Gt]\*[Am]2
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The octal character escape mechanism
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.Pq Li \e0 Ns Ar digits
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C language mechanism.
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There is no way to force
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to treat its arguments literally, rather than interpreting them as
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options and escape sequences.
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