echo

[Chris Torek]

In article <1577 at hp-sdd.HP.COM> allyn at hp-sdd.hp.com (Allyn Fratkin) writes:
>chars=`echo '\040\011\014\c'`	# use -n with bsd echo

The 2BSD and 4BSD programs correctly do *not* interpret `\' escape
sequences by default.  (Of course, they also do not ever do it....)
V8 and V9 echo use `-e' to enable escapes.  Berkeley will no doubt
follow whatever POSIX says.

(Rather than mucking with echo, USG should have supplied printf(1).)
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