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echo is a command to write something. By default this goes to stdout which by default goes to the console. Here is an example:
tweedleburg:~ # echo "hello world" hello world
you can also output variables:
tweedleburg:~ # export name="Linus" tweedleburg:~ # echo $name Linus
for more info on this, see shell programming. As with every program that outputs text, you can redirect the output to a file like this:
tweedleburg:~ # echo "hello world" > file tweedleburg:~ # cat file hello world