---
name: "echo"
section: "1fun"
platform: "linux"
package: "funny-manpages"
version: "1.3-5"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/echo/1fun"
---

# echo(1fun)

echo arguments

## NAME

echo - echo arguments

## SYNOPSIS

**echo** \[*options*\]...

## DESCRIPTION

*Echo* writes its arguments separated by blanks and terminated by a newline on the standard output. Options to filter and redirect the output are as follows:

- **-2**

  generate rhyming couplets from keywords

- **-3**

  generate Haiku verse from keywords

- **-5**

  generate limerick from keywords

- **-a**

  convert ASCII to ASCII

- **-A**

  disambiguate sentence structure

- **-b**

  generate bureaucratese equivalent (see **-x**)

- **-B**

  issue equivalent C code with bugs fixed

- **-c**

  simplify/calculate arithmetic expression(s)

- **-C**

  remove copyright notice(s)

- **-d**

  define new echo switch map

- **-D**

  delete all ownership information from system files

- **-e**

  evaluate lisp expression(s)

- **-E**

  convert ASCII to Navajo

- **-f**

  read input from file

- **-F**

  transliterate to french

- **-g**

  generate pseudo-revolutionary marxist catch-phrases

- **-G**

  prepend GNU manifesto

- **-h**

  halt system (reboot suppressed on Suns, Apollos, and VAXen, not supported on NOS-2)

- **-i**

  emulate IBM OS/VU (recursive universes not supported)

- **-I**

  emulate IBM VTOS 3.7.6 (chronosynclastic infundibulae supported with restrictions documented in IBM VTOS Reference Manual rev 3.2.6)

- **-J**

  generate junk mail

- **-j**

  justify text (see **-b** option)

- **-k**

  output "echo" software tools

- **-K**

  delete privileged accounts

- **-l**

  generate legalese equivalent

- **-L**

  load echo modules

- **-M**

  generate mail

- **-N**

  send output to all reachable networks (usable with **-J**, **-K**, **-h** options)

- **-n**

  do not add newline to the output

- **-o**

  generate obscene text

- **-O**

  clean up dirty language

- **-p**

  decrypt and print /etc/passwd

- **-P**

  port echo to all reachable networks

- **-P1**

  oolcay itay

- **-q**

  query standard input for arguments

- **-r**

  read alternate ".echo" file on start up

- **-R**

  change root password to "RMS"

- **-s**

  suspend operating system during output (Sun and VAX BSD 4.2 only)

- **-S**

  translate to swahili

- **-T**

  emulate TCP/IP handler

- **-t**

  issue troff output

- **-u**

  issue unix philosophy essay

- **-v**

  generate reverberating echo

- **-V**

  print debugging information

- **-x**

  decrypt DES format messages (NSA secret algorithm CX 3.8, not distributed outside continental US)

*Echo* is useful for producing diagnostics in shell programs and for writing constant data on pipes. To send diagnostics to the standard error file, do \`echo ... 1\>&2'.

## AUTHOR

Richard M. Stallman