How to echo a <tab> space?


 
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Old 07-06-2004
Using the GNU echo (such as is the case on GNU/Linux systems), the "-e" option will turn on special character handling.

In several of my menuing scripts, I'll use something like:
Code:
...
echo -e "Enter your choice [ ]\b\b\c"
reply=$(readOne)
...

The above works with /bin/bash, but if I'm using /bin/ksh I use "print" instead of "echo".
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clanht.f(3)							      LAPACK							       clanht.f(3)

NAME
clanht.f - SYNOPSIS
Functions/Subroutines REAL function clanht (NORM, N, D, E) CLANHT returns the value of the 1-norm, or the Frobenius norm, or the infinity norm, or the element of largest absolute value of a complex Hermitian tridiagonal matrix. Function/Subroutine Documentation REAL function clanht (characterNORM, integerN, real, dimension( * )D, complex, dimension( * )E) CLANHT returns the value of the 1-norm, or the Frobenius norm, or the infinity norm, or the element of largest absolute value of a complex Hermitian tridiagonal matrix. Purpose: CLANHT returns the value of the one norm, or the Frobenius norm, or the infinity norm, or the element of largest absolute value of a complex Hermitian tridiagonal matrix A. Returns: CLANHT CLANHT = ( max(abs(A(i,j))), NORM = 'M' or 'm' ( ( norm1(A), NORM = '1', 'O' or 'o' ( ( normI(A), NORM = 'I' or 'i' ( ( normF(A), NORM = 'F', 'f', 'E' or 'e' where norm1 denotes the one norm of a matrix (maximum column sum), normI denotes the infinity norm of a matrix (maximum row sum) and normF denotes the Frobenius norm of a matrix (square root of sum of squares). Note that max(abs(A(i,j))) is not a consistent matrix norm. Parameters: NORM NORM is CHARACTER*1 Specifies the value to be returned in CLANHT as described above. N N is INTEGER The order of the matrix A. N >= 0. When N = 0, CLANHT is set to zero. D D is REAL array, dimension (N) The diagonal elements of A. E E is COMPLEX array, dimension (N-1) The (n-1) sub-diagonal or super-diagonal elements of A. Author: Univ. of Tennessee Univ. of California Berkeley Univ. of Colorado Denver NAG Ltd. Date: September 2012 Definition at line 102 of file clanht.f. Author Generated automatically by Doxygen for LAPACK from the source code. Version 3.4.2 Tue Sep 25 2012 clanht.f(3)