Echo Command in Linux with Examples

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Jamie Arthur
Aug 21, 2019

Echo is a Unix/Linux command tool used for displaying lines of text or string which are passed as arguments on the command line. This command is most commonly used in shell scripts. In this tutorial, we will look at the different options of the echo command.

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Jamie Arthur

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