01-27-2011
This construction can be used in bash and ksh93:
man ksh:
Quote:
A single quoted string preceded by an unquoted $ is processed as an ANSI-C string except
for the following:
\0 Causes the remainder of the string to be ignored.
\E Equivalent to the escape character (ascii 033),
\e Equivalent to the escape character (ascii 033),
\cx Expands to the character control-x.
\C[.name.]
Expands to the collating element name.
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