Echo (command), the Glossary
In computing, echo is a command that outputs the strings that are passed to it as arguments.[1]
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- Inferno (operating system) commands
- Internal DOS commands
- MSX-DOS commands
- Multics commands
- OS/2 commands
- ReactOS commands
Acorn Computers
Acorn Computers Ltd. was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978.
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AmigaDOS
AmigaDOS is the disk operating system of the AmigaOS, which includes file systems, file and directory manipulation, the command-line interface, and file redirection.
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ANSI escape code
ANSI escape sequences are a standard for in-band signaling to control cursor location, color, font styling, and other options on video text terminals and terminal emulators.
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Bash (Unix shell)
Bash, short for Bourne-Again SHell, is a shell program and command language supported by the Free Software Foundation and first developed for the GNU Project by Brian Fox.
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Batch file
A batch file is a script file in DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows.
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Bell Labs
Bell Labs is an American industrial research and scientific development company credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others.
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Bourne shell
The Bourne shell (sh) is a shell command-line interpreter for computer operating systems. Echo (command) and Bourne shell are Unix SUS2008 utilities.
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C (programming language)
C (pronounced – like the letter c) is a general-purpose programming language.
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C shell
The C shell (csh or the improved version, tcsh) is a Unix shell created by Bill Joy while he was a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley in the late 1970s.
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Cmd.exe
Command Prompt, also known as cmd.exe or cmd, is the default command-line interpreter for the OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS, Microsoft Windows (Windows NT family and Windows CE family), and ReactOS operating systems. Echo (command) and cmd.exe are OS/2 commands and Windows commands.
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Command (computing)
In computing, a command is a directive to a computer program to perform a specific task. Echo (command) and command (computing) are Windows commands.
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Command-line interface
A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with a computer program by inputting lines of text called command-lines. Echo (command) and command-line interface are Windows commands.
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COMMAND.COM
COMMAND.COM is the default command-line interpreter for MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me. Echo (command) and COMMAND.COM are Windows commands.
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Commercial software
Commercial software, or seldom payware, is a computer software that is produced for sale or that serves commercial purposes.
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Computer file
In computing, a computer file is a resource for recording data on a computer storage device, primarily identified by its filename.
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Computing
Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery.
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Cross-platform software
In computing, cross-platform software (also called multi-platform software, platform-agnostic software, or platform-independent software) is computer software that is designed to work in several computing platforms.
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Digital Research
Digital Research, Inc. (DR or DRI) was a privately held American software company created by Gary Kildall to market and develop his CP/M operating system and related 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit systems like MP/M, Concurrent DOS, FlexOS, Multiuser DOS, DOS Plus, DR DOS and GEM.
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DOS
DOS is a family of disk-based operating systems for IBM PC compatible computers.
Douglas McIlroy
Malcolm Douglas McIlroy (born 1932) is an American mathematician, engineer, and programmer.
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Escape sequences in C
In the C programming language, an escape sequence is specially delimited text in a character or string literal that represents one or more other characters to the compiler.
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FLEX (operating system)
FLEX is a discontinued single-tasking operating system developed by Technical Systems Consultants (TSC) of West Lafayette, Indiana, for the Motorola 6800 in 1976.
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FlexOS
FlexOS is a discontinued modular real-time multiuser multitasking operating system (RTOS) designed for computer-integrated manufacturing, laboratory, retail and financial markets.
Hewlett-Packard
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
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HP Multi-Programming Executive
MPE (Multi-Programming Executive) is a discontinued business-oriented mainframe computer real-time operating system developed by Hewlett-Packard for their HP 3000 computers.
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IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.
Inferno (operating system)
Inferno is a distributed operating system started at Bell Labs and now developed and maintained by Vita Nuova Holdings as free software under the MIT License.
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Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.
KolibriOS
KolibriOS, or Kolibri, is a small, open-source x86 operating system written completely in assembly.
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List of DOS commands
This article presents a list of commands used by MS-DOS compatible operating systems, especially as used on IBM PC compatibles.
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List of POSIX commands
This is a list of POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) commands as specified by IEEE Std 1003.1-2024, which is part of the Single UNIX Specification (SUS). Echo (command) and list of POSIX commands are Unix SUS2008 utilities.
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McGraw Hill Education
McGraw Hill is an American publishing company for educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.
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MetaComCo (MCC) was a computer systems software company started in 1981 and based in Bristol, England by Peter Mackeonis and Derek Budge.
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Microsoft Press
Microsoft Press is the publishing arm of Microsoft, usually releasing books dealing with various current Microsoft technologies.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.
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Microware
Microware Systems Corporation was an American software company based in Clive, Iowa, that produced the OS-9 real-time operating system.
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MS-DOS
MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.
MSX-DOS
MSX-DOS is a discontinued disk operating system developed by Microsoft's Japan subsidiary for the 8-bit home computer standard MSX, and is a cross between MS-DOS v1.25 and CP/M-80 v2.2.
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Multics
Multics ("MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service") is an influential early time-sharing operating system based on the concept of a single-level memory.
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O'Reilly Media, Inc. (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American learning company established by Tim O'Reilly provides technical and professional skills development courses via an online learning platform.
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Open-source software
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.
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Operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
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OS-9
OS-9 is a family of real-time, process-based, multitasking, multi-user operating systems, developed in the 1980s, originally by Microware Systems Corporation for the Motorola 6809 microprocessor.
OS/2
OS/2 (Operating System/2) is a series of computer operating systems, initially created by Microsoft and IBM under the leadership of IBM software designer Ed Iacobucci.
Panos (operating system)
PANOS is a discontinued computer operating system developed by Acorn Computers in the 1980s and released in 1985, which ran on the 32016 Second Processor for the BBC Micro and the Acorn Cambridge Workstation.
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Pipeline (Unix)
In Unix-like computer operating systems, a pipeline is a mechanism for inter-process communication using message passing.
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system which originated from the Computing Science Research Center (CSRC) at Bell Labs in the mid-1980s and built on UNIX concepts first developed there in the late 1960s.
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POSIX
The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems.
Printf (Unix)
In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, printf is a shell builtin (and utility program) that formats and outputs text like the same-named C function. Echo (command) and printf (Unix) are IBM i Qshell commands and Standard Unix programs.
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PWB/UNIX
The Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX) was an early, now discontinued, version of the Unix operating system that had been created in the Bell Labs Computer Science Research Group of AT&T.
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ReactOS
ReactOS is a free and open-source operating system for i586/amd64 personal computers intended to be binary-compatible with computer programs and device drivers developed for Windows Server 2003 and later versions of Microsoft Windows.
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Research Unix
The term "Research Unix" refers to early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed in the Bell Labs Computing Sciences Research Center (CSRC).
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Shell (computing)
In computing, a shell is a computer program that exposes an operating system's services to a human user or other programs.
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Shell builtin
In computing, a shell builtin is a command or a function, called from a shell, that is executed directly in the shell itself, instead of an external executable program which the shell would load and execute. Echo (command) and shell builtin are Windows commands.
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Shell script
A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by a Unix shell, a command-line interpreter.
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SISNE plus
SISNE plus is a DOS 3.3 compatible clone created by Itautec and Scopus Tecnologia in Brazil prior to the end of the Market Reserve in 1991, which, at that time, forbade the importation of electronic equipment and software for general use.
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SymbOS
SYmbiosis Multitasking Based Operating System (SymbOS) is a multitasking operating system for Zilog Z80-based 8-bit computer systems.
Technical Systems Consultants
Technical Systems Consultants (TSC) was a United States software company.
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TRIPOS
TRIPOS (TRIvial Portable Operating System) is a computer operating system.
UEFI
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI, or as an acronym) is a specification that defines the architecture of the platform firmware used for booting the computer hardware and its interface for interaction with the operating system.
Unix
Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
UNIX System III
UNIX System III (or System 3) is a discontinued version of the Unix operating system released by AT&T's Unix Support Group (USG).
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Unix-like
A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, although not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.
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V (operating system)
The V operating system (sometimes written V-System) is a discontinued microkernel distributed operating system that was developed by faculty and students in the Distributed Systems Group at Stanford University from 1981 to 1988, led by Professors David Cheriton and Keith A. Lantz.
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Version 7 Unix
Version 7 Unix, also called Seventh Edition Unix, Version 7 or just V7, was an important early release of the Unix operating system.
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Z shell
The Z shell (Zsh) is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a command interpreter for shell scripting.
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Z80-RIO
The Z80 Operating System with Relocatable Modules and I/O Management (Z80-RIO) is a general-purpose operating system developed by Zilog in the late 1970s for various computer systems including the Z80 Micro Computer System (MCZ-1) series and the Z80 Development System (ZDS).
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Zilog
Zilog, Inc. is an American manufacturer of microprocessors, microcontrollers, and application-specific embedded system-on-chip (SoC) products. Founded in 1974 by Federico Faggin and Ralph Ungermann, who were soon joined by Masatoshi Shima, who had all left Intel after working the 4004 and 8080 microprocessors.
See also
Inferno (operating system) commands
- Ar (Unix)
- Basename
- Cal (command)
- Cd (command)
- Chgrp
- Chmod
- Cmp (Unix)
- Comm
- Cp (Unix)
- Dd (Unix)
- Diff
- Du (Unix)
- Echo (command)
- Env
- Fmt (Unix)
- Grep
- Gzip
- Kill (command)
- Ls
- M4 (computer language)
- Mkdir
- Mv (Unix)
- Netstat
- Passwd
- Ps (Unix)
- Pwd
- Rm (Unix)
- Runas
- Sleep (command)
- Sort (Unix)
- Strings (Unix)
- Tail (Unix)
- Tee (command)
- Time (Unix)
- Touch (command)
- Tr (Unix)
- Tsort
- Uniq
- Wc (Unix)
- Yacc
Internal DOS commands
- CLS (command)
- Cd (command)
- Copy (command)
- Del (command)
- Dir (command)
- Echo (command)
- Exit (command)
- LOADHIGH
- Mkdir
- Pushd and popd
- Ren (command)
- Rmdir
- TIME (command)
- TYPE (DOS command)
- Ver (command)
- Vol (command)
MSX-DOS commands
- ATTRIB
- CHKDSK
- CLS (command)
- Cd (command)
- Copy (command)
- Del (command)
- Dir (command)
- Diskcopy
- Echo (command)
- Exit (command)
- Format (command)
- Help (command)
- Mkdir
- Move (command)
- Ren (command)
- Rmdir
- TIME (command)
- TYPE (DOS command)
- Ver (command)
- Vol (command)
- XCOPY
Multics commands
- Echo (command)
- Help (command)
- Ls
- Pwd
- Who (Unix)
OS/2 commands
- ATTRIB
- CHKDSK
- CLS (command)
- Cd (command)
- Cmd.exe
- Comp (command)
- Copy (command)
- DOSKEY
- Debug (command)
- Del (command)
- Dir (command)
- Diskcomp
- Diskcopy
- Dpath
- Echo (command)
- Edlin
- Exit (command)
- Fdisk
- File Compare
- File Transfer Protocol
- Find (Windows)
- Finger (protocol)
- Format (command)
- Help (command)
- Ifconfig
- Label (command)
- Mkdir
- More (command)
- Move (command)
- Net (command)
- Netstat
- Nslookup
- PRINT (command)
- Ping (networking utility)
- Recover (command)
- Remote Shell
- Ren (command)
- Replace (command)
- Rmdir
- Route (command)
- SUBST
- Start (command)
- TIME (command)
- TYPE (DOS command)
- Tree (command)
- Ver (command)
- Vol (command)
- XCOPY
ReactOS commands
- ATTRIB
- Alias (command)
- At (command)
- CLS (command)
- Cacls
- Cd (command)
- Choice (command)
- Comp (command)
- Copy (command)
- DOSKEY
- Del (command)
- Dir (command)
- Echo (command)
- Exit (command)
- Find (Windows)
- Help (command)
- History (command)
- Label (command)
- Mkdir
- More (command)
- Move (command)
- Pushd and popd
- Ren (command)
- Replace (command)
- Rmdir
- Start (command)
- TIME (command)
- TYPE (DOS command)
- Tee (command)
- Title (command)
- Touch (command)
- Tree (command)
- Ver (command)
- Vol (command)
- Whoami
- XCOPY
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_(command)
Also known as ECHO (DOS command), ECHO (EFI command), Echo command, Echo statement.
, ReactOS, Research Unix, Shell (computing), Shell builtin, Shell script, SISNE plus, SymbOS, Technical Systems Consultants, TRIPOS, UEFI, Unix, UNIX System III, Unix-like, V (operating system), Version 7 Unix, Z shell, Z80-RIO, Zilog.