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- From: smr@pki-nbg.philips.de (Stephen Riehm)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: echo question
- Message-ID: <smr.721478541@hitkw14>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 10:42:21 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.171618.5675@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@pki-nbg.philips.de
- Reply-To: smr@pki-nbg.philips.de
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- a-douglas@uchicago.edu (Allen Douglas) writes:
-
- >I would like to echo tab and line return characters to the screen and/or
- >understandto a file. But I must not the escaping/quoting mechanism. According
- >to my UNIX reference I should be able to type:
-
- >quads% echo Bob'\t\t'cat
- >and get:
- >Bob cat
-
- try:
- % echo 'Bob[tab][tab]cat'
- (ie: actually hit the tab key)
-
- it works cus the shell doesn't interpret it for you, and you aren't
- relying on having an echo that recognises \t (some do, some don't)
-
- catchya
-
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