richard%aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) (02/23/89)
> "escape" (^[) to 2 characters (^ and [). (Maybe the mail will change these > escapes to ^ and [, I don't know, they left here as escapes.) Or maybe it won't, and everyone in the world will get their icons labelled `hostname` (and I'm running X11!). If you want a control character in a shell script, various options are available. You could use /usr/5bin/echo '\033' (not /bin/echo) or any of the other programs that understand octal escapes (eg echo x | tr x '\007'). -- Richard