[svlug] How to print a tab with echo?

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Rick Kwan wrote:

> The shell which invokes "echo" reads the tab as just white space.  

Is it possible that \t makes a tab? A lot of this stuff escapes characters
in similar ways and that's what's used in C (and other languages).

> "Dai  Yuwen" <yuwen at microtek.com.cn> wrote:
> > I want to print a tab in a echo statement, like this:
> >
> > echo file    description >> list
> >          ^^^^
> >          here is a tab key

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