Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:41:14 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about echo(1) Message-ID: <20000626144114.A62256@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000626222417.J232@parish>; from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:24:17PM %2B0100 References: <20000626222417.J232@parish>
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:24:17PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > So, what does ``-e'' do under sh(1)? C-style backslash processing: $ echo -e a\\tb a b $ echo a\\tb (\t produces a tab character. Two backslashes are converted to one by the shell before echo sees it.) -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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