xecho

Synopsis:
xecho [<switch> [<arg>] [<switch> [<arg>] ...] ] [--] <text>

Description:
xecho works just like echo, except that it may also accept certain switches to give more control over where the text is send. Currently, text can be sent explicitly to the current window, to any arbitrary window, and can be set to only be displayed in windows with a certain level set.

Options:
-banner display the $banner in front of the text
-current send text to current window
-level only echo text if target window has specified level
-raw send raw text to the screen, no formatting whatsoever
-window send text to specified window (name or number)
-nolog do not allow the text to be logged
-say do not output text if called as ^xecho
-- literal; disabled argument parsing for all text to the right of the double hyphens

Examples:
To echo text to the current window:
xecho -c This text will appear in the current window

To send only crap and server notices to a window called misc:
xecho -l snotice,crap -w misc This appears in the misc window

To change the titlebar of an xterm:
eval xecho -r $chr(27)]2\;Your titlebar has been changed.$chr(7)

To output text beginning with a hyphen:
xecho -- -= This text is treated literal =-
outputs:
-= This text is treated literal =-

See Also:
echo
set level
window level

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