home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Synopsis:
- echo [<anything>]
-
- Description:
- This command prints its arguments back to the screen. That's it. It
- is useful for printing status messages from inside scripts, or inside
- hooks for redefining server messages.
-
- The ECHO command is also the only command (one of two, actually; see
- XECHO) that can write to the screen when DISPLAY is off. ECHO now
- has no length limitation, it can display any string within the confines
- of memory.
-
- See Also:
- eval(5); set(4) display, input_aliases; xecho(5)
-
- Other Notes:
- ECHO will not normally expand variables unless it is used inside an
- alias. To force expansion, use EVAL or set INPUT_ALIASES on. This is
- not a bug, it is an intentional feature common to all commands.
-
-