to echo
- verb
- /ˈɛkoʊ/
- Specialized
- To check the output, simply echo the configuration settings to the terminal.
Examples
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After the image is uploaded to Rackspace, the script only needs to echo a JSON-encoded response.
Blog text (2) -
You can just and just echo something straight into that file and it appears over here on on this file.
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But you forgot to echo my last line!
Blog text (17) -
Let's echo 23, see what's up.
Fiction book (1995) -
It goes like this: if $# -ne 2 then echo "it's not equal to 2."
Blog text (16) -
The script will echo the user's input to the console for review.
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In the shell, you can use the command to echo a message on the screen.
Synonyms
To make a computer send data or results
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A device that measures water depth by sending sound and timing the echo
- Specialized
A signal that bounces back to a radio device and shows where something is
- Specialized
A way to find water depth and underwater objects by sending sound and measuring its return time
Surface Forms
Etymology
In computing the echo command 'repeats' text to the screen, a modern use of the old idea of something being sent back or shown again.