At 07:45 PM 11/30/02 +0000, Pigeon wrote: >Hi, > >man bash (bash-2.01) tells me that echo -e \nnn where nnn is an >octal number should output the character whose ASCII code is nnn. > >So, I should get: >$ builtin echo -e \101 >A >$ > >I don't. I get: >$ builtin echo -e \101 >101 >$ > >Why? The shell is getting in the way of the shell: > echo -e 'hello\101there' helloAthere > echo -e hello\101there hello101there -- Bill Moseley mailto:moseley@hank.org