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| | print - shell built-in function to output characters to the screen or window |
SYNOPSIS
ksh
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| | print [ -Rnprsu [n] ] [arg ...] |
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ksh
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The shell output mechanism. With no flags or with flag - or -, the arguments are printed on standard output as described by echo(1).
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The following options are supported:
- -n
- suppresses new-line from being added to the output.
- -R
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- -r
- (raw mode) ignore the escape conventions of echo. The -R option will print all subsequent arguments and options
other than -n.
- -p
- causes the arguments to be written onto the pipe of the process spawned with |& instead of standard output.
- -s
- causes the arguments to be written onto the history file instead of standard output.
- -u [ n ]
- flag can be used to specify a one digit file descriptor unit number n on which the
output will be placed. The default is 1.
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The following exit values are returned:
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0
- Successful operation.
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>0
- Output file is not open for writing.
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See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
| Availability | SUNWcsu |
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