This file is echo.def, from which is created echo.c. It implements the builtin "echo" in Bash. Copyright (C) 1987-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Bash, the Bourne Again SHell. Bash is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Bash is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Bash. If not, see . $PRODUCES echo.c #include #if defined (HAVE_UNISTD_H) # include #endif #include "../bashansi.h" #include #include "../shell.h" #include "common.h" $BUILTIN echo $FUNCTION echo_builtin $DEPENDS_ON V9_ECHO $SHORT_DOC echo [-neE] [arg ...] Write arguments to the standard output. Display the ARGs on the standard output followed by a newline. Options: -n do not append a newline -e enable interpretation of the following backslash escapes -E explicitly suppress interpretation of backslash escapes `echo' interprets the following backslash-escaped characters: \a alert (bell) \b backspace \c suppress further output \e escape character \f form feed \n new line \r carriage return \t horizontal tab \v vertical tab \\ backslash \0nnn the character whose ASCII code is NNN (octal). NNN can be 0 to 3 octal digits \xHH the eight-bit character whose value is HH (hexadecimal). HH can be one or two hex digits Exit Status: Returns success unless a write error occurs. $END $BUILTIN echo $FUNCTION echo_builtin $DEPENDS_ON !V9_ECHO $SHORT_DOC echo [-n] [arg ...] Write arguments to the standard output. Display the ARGs on the standard output followed by a newline. Options: -n do not append a newline Exit Status: Returns success unless a write error occurs. $END #if defined (V9_ECHO) # define VALID_ECHO_OPTIONS "neE" #else /* !V9_ECHO */ # define VALID_ECHO_OPTIONS "n" #endif /* !V9_ECHO */ /* System V machines already have a /bin/sh with a v9 behaviour. We give Bash the identical behaviour for these machines so that the existing system shells won't barf. Regrettably, the SUS v2 has standardized the Sys V echo behavior. This variable is external so that we can have a `shopt' variable to control it at runtime. */ #if defined (DEFAULT_ECHO_TO_XPG) || defined (STRICT_POSIX) int xpg_echo = 1; #else int xpg_echo = 0; #endif /* DEFAULT_ECHO_TO_XPG */ extern int posixly_correct; /* Print the words in LIST to standard output. If the first word is `-n', then don't print a trailing newline. We also support the echo syntax from Version 9 Unix systems. */ int echo_builtin (list) WORD_LIST *list; { int display_return, do_v9, i, len; char *temp, *s; do_v9 = xpg_echo; display_return = 1; if (posixly_correct && xpg_echo) goto just_echo; for (; list && (temp = list->word->word) && *temp == '-'; list = list->next) { /* If it appears that we are handling options, then make sure that all of the options specified are actually valid. Otherwise, the string should just be echoed. */ temp++; for (i = 0; temp[i]; i++) { if (strchr (VALID_ECHO_OPTIONS, temp[i]) == 0) break; } /* echo - and echo - both mean to just echo the arguments. */ if (*temp == 0 || temp[i]) break; /* All of the options in TEMP are valid options to ECHO. Handle them. */ while (i = *temp++) { switch (i) { case 'n': display_return = 0; break; #if defined (V9_ECHO) case 'e': do_v9 = 1; break; case 'E': do_v9 = 0; break; #endif /* V9_ECHO */ default: goto just_echo; /* XXX */ } } } just_echo: clearerr (stdout); /* clear error before writing and testing success */ terminate_immediately++; while (list) { i = len = 0; temp = do_v9 ? ansicstr (list->word->word, STRLEN (list->word->word), 1, &i, &len) : list->word->word; if (temp) { if (do_v9) { for (s = temp; len > 0; len--) putchar (*s++); } else printf ("%s", temp); #if defined (SunOS5) fflush (stdout); /* Fix for bug in SunOS 5.5 printf(3) */ #endif } if (do_v9 && temp) free (temp); list = list->next; if (i) { display_return = 0; break; } if (list) putchar(' '); } if (display_return) putchar ('\n'); terminate_immediately--; return (sh_chkwrite (EXECUTION_SUCCESS)); }