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1 <refentry id="echo">
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2 <refnamediv>
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3 <refname>ECHO</refname>
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4 <refpurpose>Echo text to output path</refpurpose>
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5 </refnamediv>
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7 <refsynopsisdiv>
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8 <cmdsynopsis>
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9 <command>ECHO</command>
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10 <arg choice="plain">
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11 &replstart;text&replend;
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12 </arg>
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13 </cmdsynopsis>
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14 </refsynopsisdiv>
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16 <refsect1><title>Description</title>
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17 <para>
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18 This command echoes its argument to the standard output path. It is
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19 typically used to generate messages in shell procedure files or to
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20 send an initialization character sequence to a terminal. The text
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21 should not include any of the punctuation characters used by the
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22 shell.
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23 </para>
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24 </refsect1>
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25 <refsect1><title>Examples</title>
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26 <screen>
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27 echo >/T2 Hello John how's it going & (echo to T2)
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29 echo >/term ** warning ** disk about to be scratched 1
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31 echo >/p Listing of Transaction File; list trans >/p
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34 OS9: echo Here is an important message!
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35 Here is an important message!
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36 </screen>
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37 </refsect1>
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38 </refentry>
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