In the last episode (Apr 13), Ryan Maclear said:
> I haven't really been following this thread, and I'm not sure if this
> has been posted here already. Appologies if this has been already.
>
> To usually get a <tab> to be echoed, you can use
>
> echo -e "a\tb"
The echo command doesn't take a -e option. Your shell's echo builtin
may or may not, but for portability, you have to assume it doesn't.
Use the printf command if you want fancy formatting.
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Dan Nelson
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