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- Synopsis:
- xecho [<switch> [<arg>] [<switch> [<arg>] ...]] [--] <text>
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- Description:
- XECHO works just like ECHO, except that it may also accept certain
- switches to give more control over where the text is send. Currently,
- text can be sent explicitly to the current window, to any arbitrary
- window, and can be set to only be displayed in windows with a certain
- level set.
-
- Options:
- -banner display the $banner in front of the text
- -current send text to current window
- -level <level> only echo text if target window has specified level
- -raw send raw text to the screen, no formatting whatsoever
- -window <name> send text to specified window (name or number)
- -nolog do not allow the text to be logged
- -say do not output text if called as ^xecho
- -- literal; disabled argument parsing for all text to
- the right of the double hyphens
-
- Examples:
- To echo text to the current window:
- xecho -c This text will appear in the current window
-
- To send only crap and server notices to a window called `misc'
- xecho -l snotice,crap -w misc This appears in the misc window
-
- To change the titlebar of an xterm:
- eval xecho -r $chr(27)]2\;Your titlebar has been changed.$chr(7)
-
- To output text beginning with a hyphen:
- xecho -- -= This text is treated literal =-
- outputs:
- -= This text is treated literal =-
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- See Also:
- echo(5); set(4) level; window(4) level
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