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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!gatech!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!uchinews!a-douglas@uchicago.edu
  3. From: a-douglas@uchicago.edu (Allen Douglas)
  4. Subject: echo question
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov9.171618.5675@midway.uchicago.edu>
  6. Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
  7. Organization: U of C  Law School
  8. Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:16:18 GMT
  9. Lines: 15
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  11. I would like to echo tab and line return characters to the screen and/or 
  12. understandto a file. But I must not the escaping/quoting mechanism.  According
  13. to my UNIX reference I should be able to type:
  14.  
  15. quads% echo Bob'\t\t'cat
  16. and get:
  17. Bob        cat
  18.  
  19. unfortunately I get:
  20. quads% echo Bob'\t\t'cat
  21. Bob\t\tcat
  22.  
  23. What  gives?  Thanks in advance!
  24.  
  25. Allen
  26.