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User Commandsprint(1)


NAME

 print - shell built-in function to output characters to the screen or window

SYNOPSIS

ksh

 
 print [ -Rnprsu [n] ] [arg ...]

DESCRIPTION

 

ksh

 

The shell output mechanism. With no flags or with flag - or -, the arguments are printed on standard output as described by echo(1).

OPTIONS

 

The following options are supported:

-n
suppresses new-line from being added to the output.
-R
-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.

EXIT STATUS

 

The following exit values are returned:

0
Successful operation.
>0
Output file is not open for writing.

ATTRIBUTES

 

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
AvailabilitySUNWcsu

SEE ALSO

 

echo(1), ksh(1), attributes(5)


SunOS 5.9Go To TopLast Changed 15 Apr 1994

 
      
      
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