On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 01:46 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > 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. echo is just not portable. You should use printf which is :) Thanks roy