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 — roaima, 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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