While this is a pretty important topic revolving around data types (especially when dealing with math or calculations), we broke the solution to this recipe up into two parts:
- In step 1, echo is pretty straightforward. We have mentioned in the past that there are special characters and escapes. \t stands for tab \r\n a new line in Windows (although in Linux, \n\n would have sufficed) and again, we could print out a fancy UTF character:
$ bash echo-mayhem.sh Currently we have seen the command "echo" used before in the previous scriptCan we also have \t tabs? \r\n\r\n? NO, not yet!Can we also have tabs? ? YES, we can now! enable interpretation of backslash escapesWe can also have:Check the man pages for more info ;)
- However, ...
