Re: dysfunctional echo escape

[Stephen Gran]

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

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