Re: OT: unable to use the options of echo in my shell terminal bash ofcourse

"\tcode" doesn't mean anything special in bash. To turn \t into a tab character, you have to use $'\t':

#! /bin/bash
string=$'\tcode'
echo "$string"
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Re^2: OT: unable to use the options of echo in my shell terminal bash ofcourse by parv (Parson) on Sep 14, 2015 at 15:30 UTC
`x\ty` works as expected in zsh 4.3.10; does not in /bin/sh (FreeBSD ash) & bash 4.3.42 as shown above. Then again I much prefer to use the command `(/usr/bin/)printf`, NOT the shell built-in, unless just writing one-off script on the command line.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: OT: unable to use the options of echo in my shell terminal bash ofcourse by ramachandrajr (Novice) on Sep 16, 2015 at 14:33 UTC
thanks every one i learned a lot of things from u guys	[reply]
Re^2: OT unable to use the options of echo in my shell terminal bash ofcourse by ramachandrajr (Novice) on Sep 16, 2015 at 14:31 UTC
awesome i didn't even know that learned something today thank u	[reply]