From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 8 21:05:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA12948 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 21:05:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA12939 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 21:05:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id OAA20022; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 14:05:02 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3696E325.5590B6C6@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 14:03:33 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith CC: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: beep, beep, beep! References: <199901082343.PAA00994@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > > > What about "echo \a\a\a", Mike? > > \a is magic to the parser, it'll generate 'a'. I guess that printf() Yeah, I just checked. I was sure \a was one of the special cases of parser_backslash.... > probably translates \a correctly (I haven't looked), so it would have > to be: > > echo "\a\a\a" Well, THAT wouldn't help (see kern/9397). The only thing quotes preserve is the space, and it wouldn't have helped anyway, since the backslashes are removed before any other processing is done. > or > > echo \\a\\a\\a Yeah, that would have worked if it had worked (but it didn't). :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com "Heart like a Gabriel, pure and white as ivory, soul like a lucifer, black and cold as a piece of lead." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message