Is there a way to get echo to make newlines without using any type of quotes? I've done a lot of searches and went into my Linux book to no avail. I'm trying to write five separate lines to a file. I can get echo to accept all five lines like this
echo \
\this is line 1\
\this is line 2\ >... (6 Replies)
So in my shell i execute:
{ while true; do echo string; sleep 1; done } | read line This waits one second and returns.
But
{ while true; do /bin/echo string; sleep 1; done } | read line continues to run, and doesn't stop until i kill it explicitly.
I have tried this in bash as well as zsh,... (2 Replies)
Bit of a weird one i suppose, i want to use an echo inside an echo... For example...
i have a script that i want to use to take users input and create another script. Inside this script it creates it also needs to use echos...
echo "echo "hello"" >$file
echo "echo "goodbye"" >$file
... (3 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I need to print a value in the same line , But when we use the echo instead the loops (while), the value goes to the next line..
Can you help me in this..
Thanks For your help in advance. (6 Replies)
echo `echo ` doesn't echoes anything. And it's logic. But
echo `echo `echo ` ` does echoes "echo". What's the logic of it? the `echo `echo ` inside of the whole (first) echo, echoes nothing, so the first echo have to echo nothing but echoes "echo"
(too much echoing :P):o (2 Replies)
I came across and unexpected behavior with redirections in tcsh. I know, csh is not best for redirections, but I'd like to understand what is happening here.
I have following script (called out_to_streams.csh):
#!/bin/tcsh -f
echo Redirected to STDOUT > /dev/stdout
echo Redirected to... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I'm working with ksh.
I was working with the echo command
That is
echo "Today is $date"
which would show for example
Toady is 7/12/12
which was fine
however, know I only recieve the first part of the echo without the date.
Today is
Could I have edited the echo... (9 Replies)
Hi guys,
Been messing around with shell programming for a couple of days and I found something that was pretty odd in the behavior of the echo command. Below is an example-:
When I type the following in my /home directory from my lxterminal in Debian-:
echo "`ls -l`"
I get the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sreyan32
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
echo
ECHO(1) BSD General Commands Manual ECHO(1)NAME
echo -- write arguments to the standard output
SYNOPSIS
echo [-n] [string ...]
DESCRIPTION
The echo utility writes any specified operands, separated by single blank (' ') characters and followed by a newline ('
') character, to the
standard output.
The following option is available:
-n Do not print the trailing newline character.
The end-of-options marker -- is not recognized and written literally.
The newline may also be suppressed by appending 'c' to the end of the string, as is done by iBCS2 compatible systems. Note that the -n
option as well as the effect of 'c' are implementation-defined in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'') as amended by Cor. 1-2002. For porta-
bility, echo should only be used if the first argument does not start with a hyphen ('-') and does not contain any backslashes (''). If
this is not sufficient, printf(1) should be used.
Most shells provide a builtin echo command which tends to differ from this utility in the treatment of options and backslashes. Consult the
builtin(1) manual page.
EXIT STATUS
The echo utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO builtin(1), csh(1), printf(1), sh(1)STANDARDS
The echo utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'') as amended by Cor. 1-2002.
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