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# 1  
Old 12-24-2013
Escaping the \
So I understand that I should be able to ouput a literal \ by escaping it with a preceding \. My problem is that I am trying to ouput a script that will subsequently be run on a different system with UNC pathing, so I want to ouput two \\ in a row, but escaping them both in sequential order is not working. Example:

Code:
[server:/informix]# echo "spool \\\\server.net\\data\\out.txt" > test.sql
[server:/informix]# cat test.sql                                         
spool \server.net\data\out.txt

My goal is for the ouput to be:
Code:
spool \\server.net\data\out.txt

Last edited by bartus11; 12-24-2013 at 04:34 PM.. Reason: cleared formatting
# 2  
Old 12-24-2013
This is weird as it works for me in BASH on Linux... Try this though:
Code:
echo 'spool \\server.net\data\out.txt' > test.sql

# 3  
Old 12-24-2013
Hi bartus11...

Works for me too in OSX 10.7.5, default bash terminal.
Code:
Last login: Tue Dec 24 20:53:46 on ttys000
AMIGA:barrywalker~> echo 'spool \\server.net\data\out.txt' > /tmp/test.sql
AMIGA:barrywalker~> hexdump -C /tmp/test.sql
00000000  73 70 6f 6f 6c 20 5c 5c  73 65 72 76 65 72 2e 6e  |spool \\server.n|
00000010  65 74 5c 64 61 74 61 5c  6f 75 74 2e 74 78 74 0a  |et\data\out.txt.|
00000020
AMIGA:barrywalker~> _

EDIT: Correct my last...
Last edited by wisecracker; 12-24-2013 at 05:06 PM.. Reason: Does work in shell as well as bash.
# 4  
Old 12-24-2013
You can also use octal code
Code:
$ echo -e "spool \0134\0134server.net\0134data\0134out.txt"
spool \\server.net\data\out.txt

$ echo -e "spool \0134\0134server.net\0134data\0134out.txt" >test.sql

This User Gave Thanks to Akshay Hegde For This Post:
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# 5  
Old 12-24-2013
I am in KSH on AIX.

Code:
echo 'spool \\server.net\data\out.txt' > test.sql

didn't work
Code:
$ cat test.sql
spool \server.net\data\out.txt

But octal code did the trick! Thank you Akshay!
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