Echo (command)

echo
Original author(s)Douglas McIlroy
(AT&T Bell Laboratories)
Developer(s)Various open-source and commercial developers
Operating systemMultics, Unix, Unix-like, V, Plan 9, Inferno, FLEX, TRIPOS, AmigaDOS, Z80-RIO, OS-9, DOS, MSX-DOS, Panos, FlexOS, SISNE plus, OS/2, Windows, ReactOS, MPE/iX, KolibriOS, SymbOS
PlatformCross-platform
TypeCommand

In computing, echo is a command that outputs the strings that are passed to it as arguments. It is a command available in various operating system shells and typically used in shell scripts and batch files to output status text to the screen[1] or a computer file, or as a source part of a pipeline.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference rugheimer-spanik-amigados was invoked but never defined (see the help page).