Hi, I haven't really been following this thread, and I'm not sure if this has been posted here already. Appologies if this has been already.
To usually get a <tab> to be echoed, you can use echo -e "a\tb" Cheers, Ryan On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Vyacheslav Anikin wrote: > Здравствуйте, gs. > > Вы писали 13 апреля 2006 г., 2:48:44: > > gjc> I tried out FreeBSD 6.0 (sorry, I copied just part or > gjc> uname -a and I got something like "LINUX 2.4.2 FreeBSD 6.0 - > gjc> Release #0: Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/LINUX") > gjc> and was surprised to find that things in the echo command didn't > gjc> work. When I typed > gjc> echo "a\tb" > gjc> I got a\tb , no tab replacing the "\t" Same for "\n". > gjc> When I tried to type > gjc> echo "<tab>b" > gjc> where <tab> stands for hitting the tab key, when I hit <tab> the > gjc> first time, nothing happened, when I hit it immediately afterward, I > gjc> got an ls -A listing. I did manage to get a tab into the string > [skipped] > > ok. If you want to print out <tab> you must to use sequence ^V^I. > Where ^I is <tab> char. Or you may use <tab>-key instead of ^I. > That there's the same. Or I something didn't understand? > > -- > С уважением, > Vyacheslav mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
