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Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 2 May 2008
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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. When no options are specified, or when an option followed by ' a - is specified, or when just - is specified, the arguments are printed on standard output as described by echo(1).  

OPTIONS

The following options are supported:

-n

Suppress a NEWLINE from being added to the output.

-p

Cause the arguments to be written onto the pipe of the process spawned with |& instead of standard output.

-r
-R

Raw mode. Ignore the escape conventions of echo. The -R option prints all subsequent arguments and options other than -n.

-s

Cause the arguments to be written onto the history file instead of standard output.

-u [ n ]

Specify a one digit file descriptor unit number n on which the output is placed. The default is 1.

 

EXIT STATUS

The following exit values are returned:

0

Successful completion.

>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)

 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
ksh
DESCRIPTION
ksh
OPTIONS
EXIT STATUS
ATTRIBUTES
SEE ALSO
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