Re: Syntax for tab character

[Chet Ramey]

Greg Wooledge wrote:

> From an older bash(1) manual:
> 
>        Words of the form $'string' are treated specially.  The word expands to
>        string, with backslash-escaped characters replaced as specifed  by  the
>        ANSI  C  standard.
> 
> Bash 4 manual:
> 
>       Words of the form $string are treated specially.  The word expands to
>       string, with backslash-escaped characters replaced as specified by the
>       ANSI C standard.
> 
> Oops... looks like the single quotes vanished somewhere along the way
> there.

They are present in the source and render correctly in doc/bash.0, the
preformatted copy of the manual page in the distribution.  Your nroff/
troff probably doesn't understand the \(aq escape sequence.

I changed it because groff, when running in a UTF-8 locale, doesn't
render literal single quotes as desired (it turns them into "right
single quotation mark" rather than "apostrophe").

Chet
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