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Displaying text with the echo command

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Displaying text with the echo command

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- [Narrator] The echo command is how you print a message, and in scripts it's pretty common to want to print a message. There's a few options to echo and there's a couple in particular that are really handy to know about. The -n means don't print usual trailing newline. Sometimes you want to echo something out, and then on that same line of output, echo something else out. That's -n, or maybe you want to print a prompt and have the cursor stop there while the user types in an answer on the same line. The -e tells echo to interpret some special characters. The most common are \n and \t. \n is print a newline, and you could do a sequence of those if you want to print a bunch of new lines. \t means print a tab character. And, every once in awhile, maybe some version of Bash you got, or some settings who are set somewhere, maybe you need the -E which will disable those special characters in case you want to see the backslash and the n instead of a newline. Echo is particularly helpful…

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