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In computing, echo is a command in DOS, OS/2, Microsoft Windows, Singularity, Unix and Unix-like...
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In computing, echo is a command in DOS, OS/2, Microsoft Windows, Singularity, Unix and Unix-like operating systems that places a string on the computer terminal. It is typically used in shell scripts and batch files to output status text to the screen or a file.
Some variants of Unix support options such as -n and -e. These are not standard due to historical incompatibilities between BSD and System V; the printf command can be used in situations where this is a problem.
The echo command can be implemented in the C programming language with only a few lines of code:
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Oct 22, 2006
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