On 11/15/17 10:01 AM, Rick Richardson wrote: > $ echo "$'\t' " | xod > > Dump: standard input > > Offset: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 0123456789abcdef > > 00000000: 24 27 5c 74 27 20 0a | $'\t' . > | > > A Bash bug???
Where's the bug? Since single quotes aren't special within double quotes, what behavior do you expect? -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/