Giles Orr wrote: > Hi Chet, Bob. > > I see what the problem is, and yes, it appears to be documentation > rather than a "bug." My apologies. However, in the copy I have of > the man page (I run Debian testing, whatever is default with that and > possibly not up-to-date with the latest version of Bash ... The octal > thing is mentioned in at least two places and they don't agree. Under > the section for "echo" it says "\0nnn", but under the section > "QUOTING" it discusses backslash escape sequences and gives octal as > "\nnn". Since I just searched for "octal" on the man page, I hit the > "QUOTING" section first.
The section you found describes the $'...' ANSI-C quoting extension. It's not specified by Posix, and bash and ksh93 implement it the same way (like ANSI-C). Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
