On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:15:58PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > At 07:45 PM 11/30/02 +0000, Pigeon wrote: > >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? > > The shell is getting in the way of the shell: > > > echo -e 'hello\101there' > helloAthere > > > echo -e hello\101there > hello101there
Wheee! Thanks. I keep forgetting how many levels of interpretation go on. Nice one. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
