echo un comando dei sistemi operativi Unix e Unix-like, e pi in generale dei sistemi

POSIX[1] che scrive i suoi parametri sullo standard output (tipicamente sul terminale da
cui il comando stato eseguito).

La sintassi generale di echo la seguente:

echo [arg1 ]

I parametri arg indicano il testo da scrivere sullo standard output.

NAME
echo - display a line of text

SYNOPSIS
echo [OPTION]... [STRING]...

DESCRIPTION
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of echo which will supercede the version described
here. Please refer to your shell's documentation for details about the options it supports.
Echo the STRING(s) to standard output.
-n
do not output the trailing newline
-e
enable interpretation of the backslash-escaped characters listed below
-E
disable interpretation of those sequences in STRINGs
--help
display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
Without -E, the following sequences are recognized and interpolated:
\NNN
the character whose ASCII code is NNN (octal)
\\
backslash
\a
alert (BEL)
\b
backspace
\c
suppress trailing newline
\f

form feed
\n
new line
\r
carriage return
\t
horizontal tab
\v
vertical tab