Re: possible echo -e bug in bash

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

"M. Johnson" wrote:
> in bash 2.05a.0(1)-release,
> echo -e "\\a"
> seems like it should print "\a" to the console, but in actuality it beeps
> and prints nothing.

You've got the quoting wrong. "\\a" will be passed to the 'echo' command as:

    \a

which will cause the beep. Try this instead:

    echo -e '\\a'

Regards,

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