Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 14:03:33 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: beep, beep, beep! Message-ID: <3696E325.5590B6C6@newsguy.com> References: <199901082343.PAA00994@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith wrote: > > > What about "echo \a\a\a", Mike? > > \a is magic to the parser, it'll generate 'a'. I guess that printf() Yeah, I just checked. I was sure \a was one of the special cases of parser_backslash.... > probably translates \a correctly (I haven't looked), so it would have > to be: > > echo "\a\a\a" Well, THAT wouldn't help (see kern/9397). The only thing quotes preserve is the space, and it wouldn't have helped anyway, since the backslashes are removed before any other processing is done. > or > > echo \\a\\a\\a Yeah, that would have worked if it had worked (but it didn't). :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com "Heart like a Gabriel, pure and white as ivory, soul like a lucifer, black and cold as a piece of lead." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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