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#!/bin/bash
# escaped.sh: escaped characters

#############################################################
### First, let's show some basic escaped-character usage. ###
#############################################################

# Escaping a newline.
# ------------------

echo ""

echo "This will print
as two lines."
# This will print
# as two lines.

echo "This will print \
as one line."
# This will print as one line.

echo; echo

echo "============="


echo "\v\v\v\v"      # Prints \v\v\v\v literally.
# Use the -e option with 'echo' to print escaped characters.
echo "============="
echo "VERTICAL TABS"
echo -e "\v\v\v\v"   # Prints 4 vertical tabs.
echo "=============="

echo "QUOTATION MARK"
echo -e "\042"       # Prints " (quote, octal ASCII character 42).
echo "=============="



# The $'\X' construct makes the -e option unnecessary.

echo; echo "NEWLINE and (maybe) BEEP"
echo $'\n'           # Newline.
echo $'\a'           # Alert (beep).
                     # May only flash, not beep, depending on terminal.

# We have seen $'\nnn" string expansion, and now . . .

# =================================================================== #
# Version 2 of Bash introduced the $'\nnn' string expansion construct.
# =================================================================== #

echo "Introducing the \$\' ... \' string-expansion construct . . . "
echo ". . . featuring more quotation marks."

echo $'\t \042 \t'   # Quote (") framed by tabs.
# Note that  '\nnn' is an octal value.

# It also works with hexadecimal values, in an $'\xhhh' construct.
echo $'\t \x22 \t'  # Quote (") framed by tabs.
# Thank you, Greg Keraunen, for pointing this out.
# Earlier Bash versions allowed '\x022'.

echo


# Assigning ASCII characters to a variable.
# ----------------------------------------
quote=$'\042'        # " assigned to a variable.
echo "$quote Quoted string $quote and this lies outside the quotes."

echo

# Concatenating ASCII chars in a variable.
triple_underline=$'\137\137\137'  # 137 is octal ASCII code for '_'.
echo "$triple_underline UNDERLINE $triple_underline"

echo

ABC=$'\101\102\103\010'           # 101, 102, 103 are octal A, B, C.
echo $ABC

echo

escape=$'\033'                    # 033 is octal for escape.
echo "\"escape\" echoes as $escape"
#                                   no visible output.

echo

exit 0