Re: dysfunctional echo escape

["Stephen Gran" <steve@lobefin.net>]

Pigeon writes: 

> 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? 
>
> Pigeon

steve:~$ echo -e \101
101
steve:~$ echo -e '\101'
A 

You have to quote it to get it parsed right. 

HTH,
Steve