echo (Shell Scripting)
Echo is the method of printing to standard output in a shell script. It accepts an unimited number of arguments, printing each one to the screen.
Standard Usage is:
#!/bin/bash
echo Cool Beans
The output from echo can be easily redirected into a file using the > operator:
#!/bin/bash
echo Cool Beans > MyCoolFile.txt
If you wanted to immediately trash the output, you can do so by redirecting the output to /dev/null
#!/bin/bash
echo This will not show up on the screen > /dev/null
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