S6-FRONTEND-HELPER-ECHO(8)

NAME
s6-frontend-helper-echo - echo arguments to stdout

DESCRIPTION
s6-frontend-helper-echo is a small utility to echo arguments to stdout. It is not meant to be called directly, although nothing bad will happen if you do. It is used in command lines crafted by ‘s6 live status’ (cf. s6_live(8)) due to unreliable and inconsistent handling of options and dash arguments in the various POSIX echo[1] implementations.

s6-frontend-helper-echo is basically a copy of s6-echo(1) and behaves exactly the same. The program has been included in s6-frontend in order to avoid a dependency to s6-portable-utils[2].

SEE ALSO
s6-echo(1), s6-frontend-overview(7), s6_live(8)

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/echo.html

[2] https://skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/

This man page is ported from the authoritative documentation at: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-frontend/s6-frontend-helper-echo.html

AUTHORS
Laurent Bercot Lennart Jablonka <humm@ljabl.com> (man page port)