.TH echo 1 2021-11-21 mp-utils "General Commands Manual"
.SH NAME
echo \- Print argv to stdout.
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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Print the provided arguments to stdout while applying
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backslash escapes.
.SH DESCRIPTION
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Echo accepts input from the user and prints it to stdout while escaping the following specified sequences.

\\a \- Print a BEL.

\\b \- Print a backspace.

\\c \- Suppress the trailing newline and ignore further input.

\\f \- Print a form-feed.

\\n \- Print a newline.

\\r \- Print a carriage return.

\\t \- Print a tabulation.

\\v \- Print a vertical tabulation.

\\0 \- Print the specified codepoint (specified in octal) in the system's encoding.
.SH OPTIONS
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This implementation of echo accepts no parameters.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
This implementation of echo requires a C89 compiler.
.SH FILES
/usr/src/mp-utils/src/echo.c
.SH CONFORMING TO
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POSIX
2017,
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3
.SH NOTES
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For historical reasons implementations of echo vary wildly in their behavior across systems. For a portable way to print to stdout, see printf. 
.SH ERRORS
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Currently, \\0xxx (octal) escapes have not been implemented.
.SH SEE ALSO
echo(1p), printf(1p), printf(1)