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in unix echo is used for..

Answer / khemnath chauhan

echo command is particularly use for displaying the
statement
echo "statement"
OR
echo statement

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Answer / tubecharger

In unix, echo is used to display whatever is following it
onto the terminal or screen. Special characters get handled
differently and are processed by the shell with their
special meaning. If special characters are to be displayed
using echo, then they must be preceded by a back-slash or
put in quotes or double quotes or a combination of all of
these depending on what you are trying to do.
For example:
example 1:
echo hello world
displays
hello world

example 2:
echo "Hello there!"
displays
Hello there!
(and here the special character ! is quoted so that it's
special meaning is ignored.)

example 3:
set message = "this is a message."
echo $message
displays
this is a message.

echo on - by itself does not turn on and off echoing of
commands to the terminal. echo on simply types "on" at the
terminal.

echo string >> filename may work on some systems but the
conventional way of doing this is using the cat command:
cat "hello world" > filename

Refer to the man page on csh, bash or sh for more details on
the echo command.

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in unix echo is used for..

Answer / shaishaw

echo is used for
........................
1> Displaying the message
$ echo "xyz"
xyz

2> Displaying the content of the variable
$ x=5
$ echo x=$x;
x=5

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in unix echo is used for..

Answer / rajib mallick

echo command is used for displaying contents of environment
variables, messages and statements as well.

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in unix echo is used for..

Answer / rahul

in unix echo is used to display the text

ex; echo "oracle"

result :oracle

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in unix echo is used for..

Answer / bikas

The echo command is a built-in command of shell.
Its purpose is to output its arguments on to standard output..

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Answer / sangu

echo is also used to append the data or overwrite the data
for the existing file.

eg1:
echo "string" > filename --- overwrite the data in the
file

eg2:
echo "string" >> filename --- append the string in the
file.

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in unix echo is used for..

Answer / lokesh210

It is just like printf in C language.

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Answer / satheesh

Used to write text on a screen.........

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Answer / swetcha

The echo command echoes its arguments

Another important use of the echo command is to toggle
echoing of commands on and off in batch files.

echo on turns on echoing of commands
echo off turns off echoing of commands

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