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This command is used to display a text or a string to the standard output or a file. $ echo “This is an article on basic linux commands”

Example$ echo –e “This is an article is for beginners. \nIt is on basic linux commands

echo prints the arguments to the screen

Example$ echo hello world

displays the value of variable using echo command

Exampleecho the value of variable var is $ 100

we can suppress the last line using the -n option

Exampleecho hello world hello world
echo -n hello world

we can add new line to the existing file using echo command

Exampleecho hai everyone>>colors,txt

shows all the files in a directory

Exampleecho *

prints only the .txt files

Exampleecho *txt

we can delete the contents of the file1 without deleting the file1

Exampleecho > file1

by giving \n option we can print each word in differnet line

Exampleecho -e 'hello \n world \nhai \neveryone

it gives the horizontal tab between two words

Exampleecho 'hello \t world'

it gives the vertical space

Exampleecho -e 'hai \v everyone \v hai \v friends'

Output:
Hello, World!

Exampleecho "Hello, World!"

Output:
Welcome to DevOps School

ExampleNAME="DevOps"
echo "Welcome to $NAME School"

Output:
Welcome to DevOps School

ExampleNAME="DevOps"
echo "Welcome to $NAME School"

Hello, Welcome to DevOpsSchool!

Exampleecho -e "Hello,\nWelcome to DevOpsSchool!"

Name: John Doe

Exampleecho -e "Name:\tJohn Doe"

Check the file content using: cat testfile.txt

Exampleecho "This is a test file" > testfile.txt

Check the updated file:

cat testfile.txt

Exampleecho "This is an appended line" >> testfile.txt

Output:
This will not add a newline

Exampleecho -n "This will not add a newline"

Current User: devops
Home Directory: /home/devops
Current Shell: /bin/bash

Exampleecho "Current User: $USER"
echo "Home Directory: $HOME"
echo "Current Shell: $SHELL"

Today is Wed Jan 29 14:00:00 IST 2025

Exampleecho "Today is $(date)"

Prints a line of text or variables to standard output.

Exampleecho "Hello, Linux!"

Outputs the text to the terminal or file.

Exampleecho "Hello, World!"

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