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    Echo text without a trailing newline

    RyanBy RyanFebruary 18, 20111 Min Read
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    By default the echo command will include a trailing newline at the end of a string. There are many times when you may want to suppress this newline for example when you want to format text in a certain way.There are a couple easy ways to do this.

    First you can use the ‘-n’ option.
    $ echo -n "hello"

    You can also use the ‘-e’ option which enables interpretation of backslash escapes. Followed by a ‘\c’ escape character to signal continuation (no automatic line break).
    $ echo -e "hello\c"

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