This question already has answers here: Closed 10 years ago. Possible Duplicate: Reference: Comparing PHP’s print and echo Is there any major and fundamental difference between these two functions in PHP? 5 Answers 5
How could I do this with echo? perl -E ‘say “=” x 100’ 35 Answers 35 You can use: printf ‘=%.0s’ {1..100} How this works: Bash expands {1..100} so the command becomes: printf ‘=%.0s’ 1 2 3 4 … 100 I’ve set printf’s format to =%.0s which means that it will always print a single … Read more
I’m writing a Bash script that prints some text to the screen: echo “Some Text” Can I format the text? I would like to make it bold. 5 Answers 5
I have a Bash script that runs a program with parameters. That program outputs some status (doing this, doing that…). There isn’t any option for this program to be quiet. How can I prevent the script from displaying anything? I am looking for something like Windows’ “echo off”. 8 Answers 8
How do I echo one or more tab characters using a bash script? When I run this code res=” “x # res = “\t\tx” echo ‘[‘$res’]’ # expect [\t\tx] I get this res=[ x] # that is [<space>x] 10 Answers 10
I want to write some pre-defined texts to a file with the following: text=”this is line one\n this is line two\n this is line three” echo -e $text > filename I’m expecting something like this: this is line one this is line two this is line three But got this: this is line one this … Read more
I am trying to print a text in the terminal using echo command. I want to print the text in a red color. How can I do that? 3 33
In Bash, tried this: echo -e “Hello,\nWorld!” But it doesn’t print a newline, only \n. How can I make it print the newline? I’m using Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal). 20 20 You could use printf instead: printf “hello\nworld\n” printf has more consistent behavior than echo. The behavior of echo varies greatly between different versions.
