How to handle "&" in Echo command

Question

I required to Echo following information but I am getting error.

echo Mumbai & Banglore

But I am getting error as follows,

'Banglore' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

The error message smells a bit like the windows command.com command line interface (esp. the mention of "batch files"). What system are you running exactly, and are you sure it's on topic on unix.SE? — ilkkachu, Apr 19 '22 at 08:56
The error message is exactly the text reported if the command as shown is run at a Windows CMD prompt — Chris Davies, Apr 19 '22 at 09:55
In a shell script, & is a statement separator: A & B means to start execution of A in the background and then immediately start B. In your case, you are running echo Mumbai in the background and then start Bangalore. It seems that you don't have in your PATH an executable named Bangalore. However, as roaima and ikkachu already explained, you are not running a unix shell script at all, so this is the wrong place to ask anyway. — user1934428, Apr 20 '22 at 11:59

Romeo Ninov · Answer 1 · 2022-04-19T09:10:23.080

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You can change your command on this way to escape the ampersand:

echo Mumbai \& Banglore

or use single quotes

echo 'Mumbai & Banglore'

In case of use cmd (Windows) you can use caret:

echo Mumbai ^& Banglore

edited Apr 19 '22 at 09:10

answered Apr 19 '22 at 08:16

Romeo Ninov

Thanks for feedback , but both options are tried but those are not working , if any other options are there then pls share – Vips Apr 19 '22 at 08:45
@Vips, both options work in bash. What is your shell? – Romeo Ninov Apr 19 '22 at 08:47
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And both work in zsh – Seamus Apr 19 '22 at 08:54
@Vips, I add another option to escape & – Romeo Ninov Apr 19 '22 at 09:10

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