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”
$ echo –e “This is an article is for beginners. \nIt is on basic linux commands
echo prints the arguments to the screen
$ echo hello world
displays the value of variable using echo command
echo the value of variable var is $ 100
we can suppress the last line using the -n option
echo hello world hello world
echo -n hello world
we can add new line to the existing file using echo command
echo hai everyone>>colors,txt
shows all the files in a directory
echo *
prints only the .txt files
echo *txt
we can delete the contents of the file1 without deleting the file1
echo > file1
by giving \n option we can print each word in differnet line
echo -e 'hello \n world \nhai \neveryone
it gives the horizontal tab between two words
echo 'hello \t world'
it gives the vertical space
echo -e 'hai \v everyone \v hai \v friends'