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02-07-2006
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Escape sequence
Hi,
I have got an application through which an user will submit an address like "c:\tuser\abc". This application calls a script and passes the address to the scripts positional parameter say $1. So $1 should contain "c:\tuser\abc", but when $1 is echoed the "\t" and "\a" are interpreted to escape sequence 'tab' and 'bell'. I cannot ask the user to enter the address in any other format. Please let me know how to resolve this issue. TIA, Puspendu |
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02-08-2006
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If you are using echo to print the address back to the user, then try Code:
echo -E "c:\tuser\abc" From the man pages of echo Code:
-e enable interpretation of the backslash-escaped characters listed
below
-E disable interpretation of those sequences in STRINGsMan pages of sh, ksh also mention the usage of echo -E to disable interpretation. |
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02-08-2006
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Hi Vino,
Thnx for the quick reply but as we know the echo command varies a lot across different shell, so is the case here. I am on 'AIX' and 'ksh' shell. So the -e/-E options are not supported, I also confirmed from the man pages for echo. Regards, Puspendu |
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02-08-2006
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Since you are using ksh as the shell, try
print -r "c:\tuser\abc" I am not very sure about the following command. But try. printf "%s\n" "c:\tuser\abc" |
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02-08-2006
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Thanks Vino
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