NAME
    echo - display a line of text

SYNOPSIS
    echo [OPTION]... [STRING]...

DESCRIPTION
    NOTE: your shell may have its own version of echo which will supercede
    the version described here. Please refer to your shell's  documentation
    for details about the options it supports.

    Echo the STRING(s) to standard output.

    -n   do not output the trailing newline

    -e   enable interpretation of the backslash-escaped characters listed
    below

    -E   disable interpretation of those sequences in STRINGs

    --help display this help and exit

    --version
    output version information and exit

    Without -E, the following sequences are recognized and interpolated:

    \NNN  the character whose ASCII code is NNN (octal)

    \\   backslash

    \a   alert (BEL)

    \b   backspace

    \c   suppress trailing newline

    \f   form feed

    \n   new line

    \r   carriage return

    \t   horizontal tab

    \v   vertical tab

AUTHOR
    Written by FIXME unknown.

REPORTING BUGS
    Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is
    NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
    PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO
    The full documentation for echo is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
    the info and echo programs are properly installed at your site, the
    command

    info echo

    should give you access to the complete manual.