Backslashed escape sequences

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Friday 19 September 2008 03:02, Marc W. Abel wrote:
> Gladly.  In a Linux console or xterm, you can
> 
> gnu-bash $ echo \\ec
> 
>     will clear the screen
>     That's bash behavior, not coreutils echo behavior.

You mean "echo -e \\ec"?
> 
> busybox $ echo \\ec
> 
>     will output "\ec" on the next line
> 
> any-shell-on-gnu-coreutils-system $ /bin/echo \\ec
> 
>     does what Busybox does
> 
> The FSF is not tremendously consistent across equivalent utilities; they
> own the copyrights to bash's echo and coreutils's echo, yet they behave
> differently.

Seems like a discrepancy between bash and coreutils.
All manpages I can find do not mention \e.
Let's not torture ourself yet trying to mimic both at once,
especially that \x1b and \033 work.
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