Re: bash und echo

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@enter.de>]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 11:27:26PM +0100, clemens kurtenbach wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >----snip-----
> >erno@flinker:~$ echo -e \101
> >101
> >----snip-----
> >
> >Lt. man bash hätte ich als output "A" erwartet.
> >Was interpretiere ich falsch?

A  non-quoted  backslash (\) is the escape character.  It preserves the lit­
eral value of the next character that follows, with the exception of <new­
line>.  If a \<newline> pair appears, and the backslash is not itself
quoted, the \<newline> is treated as a line continuation (that is, it is
removed from the input stream and effectively ignored).

> [ck@nexus:ck] echo -e '\101'
> A

Christian

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