Double Quotes
Quoting
Locale Translation
Double Quotes
Quoting
Locale Translation
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. Backslash escape sequences, if
present, are decoded as follows:
\a
|
alert (bell) |
\b
|
backspace |
\e
|
an escape character (not ANSI C) |
\f
|
form feed |
\n
|
newline |
\r
|
carriage return |
\t
|
horizontal tab |
\v
|
vertical tab |
\\
|
backslash |
\nnn
|
the character whose ASCII code is the octal value nnn
(one to three digits)
|
\xnnn
|
the character whose ASCII code is the hexadecimal value nnn
(one to three digits)
|
The result is single-quoted, as if the dollar sign had not been present.
Double Quotes
Quoting
Locale Translation