echo
Print given arguments. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/echo-invocation.html.
- Print a text message. Note: quotes are optional:
echo "{{Hello World}}"
- Print a message with environment variables:
echo "{{My path is $PATH}}"
- Print a message without the trailing newline:
echo -n "{{Hello World}}"
- Append a message to the file:
echo "{{Hello World}}" >> {{file.txt}}
- Enable interpretation of backslash escapes (special characters):
echo -e "{{Column 1\tColumn 2}}"
- Print the exit status of the last executed command (Note: In Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell the equivalent commands are
echo %errorlevel%
and$lastexitcode
respectively):
echo $?