shtool-echo - GNU shtool echo(1) extensional command

shtoolecho is an echo(1) style command which prints string to stdout and optionally provides special
       expansion constructs (terminal bold mode, environment details, date, etc) and newline control. The trick
       of this command is that it provides a portable -n option and hides the gory details needed to find out
       the environment details under option -e.

        #   shell script
        shtool echo -n -e "Enter your name [%B%u%b]: "; read name
        shtool echo -e "Your Email address might be %u@%h%d"
        shtool echo -e "The current date is %D-%m-%Y"

       The GNUshtoolecho command was originally written by Ralf S.  Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in  1998
       for WebsiteMETALanguage (WML) under the name buildinfo. It was later taken over into GNUshtool.

       shtool-echo - GNU shtool echo(1) extensional command

       The following command line options are available.

       -n, --newline
           By  default, output is written to stdout followed by a "newline" (ASCII character 0x0a). If option -n
           is used, this newline character is omitted.

       -e, --expand
           If option -e is used, string can contain special "%x" constructs which are expanded before the output
           is written. Currently the following constructs are recognized:

           %B  switch terminal mode to bold display mode.

           %b  switch terminal mode back to normal display mode.

           %u  the current user name.

           %U  the current user id (numerical).

           %g  the current group name.

           %G  the current group id (numerical).

           %h  the current hostname (without any domain extension).

           %d  the current domain name.

           %D  the current day of the month.

           %M  the current month (numerical).

           %m  the current month name.

           %Y  the current year.

shtool(1), echo(1).

18-Jul-2008                                       shtool 2.0.8                                SHTOOL-ECHO.TMP(1)

shtoolecho [-n|--newline] [-e|--expand] string