Jim Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| The table of backslash escapes in the echo(1) man page does not
| display correctly for me under RedHat Linux 7.0. It does display
| correctly in previous RH releases.
|
| % rpm -q -f /usr/share/man/man1/echo.1.gz
| sh-utils-2.0-11
|
| The section in question:
Thanks for the report.
That's fixed in the latest test release.
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/
Here's what you get with the latest release:
Without -E, the following sequences are recognized and
interpolated:
\NNN the character whose ASCII code is NNN (octal)
\\ backslash
\a alert (BEL)
\b backspace
\c suppress trailing newline
\f form feed
\n new line
\r carriage return
\t horizontal tab
\v vertical tab
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