Manish Singh

• Dec 2nd, 2012

 

-e option tells echo to consider the escape sequences in the statement.

e.g. echo "Without hyphen e option
It will be the same"
Output :: Without hyphen e option
It will be the same

echo -e "With hyphen e option
It will be different"
Output :: With hyphen e option
It will be different

PARUL SHARMA

• Dec 8th, 2014

 

For better understanding consider the example

Code
echo "welcome to geekinterview


have a nice day""welcome to geekinterview


have a nice day"

here
for new line
for a tab etc.

Gaurav Khurana

• Jan 9th, 2015

 

For me its printing -e also
[/home/gk]=> echo -e "is it different"
-e is it different
[/home/gk]=> echo "is it different"
is it different
My unix is Sun OS 5.10

abhinav

• Jan 19th, 2016

 

echo -e /nabhinav
in this first a blank line will be printed after that in next line abhinav. -e is used for special symbols