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Sunday, 19 May 2019

Examples of "escape sequences" usage on echo command

To use interpretation of backslash escapes, just need to put "-e" parameters afterward echo command.

Info: "-e" means enable escape sequences

Examples of backslash escapes:
New line;
$ echo -e "Hello World\n"
-> Hello World

Form feed;
$ echo -e "Hello World\fWhat a lovely day\fI like this\f"
-> Hello World
            What a lovely day
                              I like this

Carriage return;
$ echo -e "Hello World\rWorld"
-> World World

Horizontal tab;
$ echo -e "Hello World\tWhat a lovely day"
-> Hello World     What a lovely day

Vertical tab;
$ echo -e "Hello World\vWhat a lovely day"
-> Hello World
           What a lovely day

Null;
$ echo -e "Hello World\0 What a lovely day"
-> Hello World What a lovely day

Clear after all;
$ echo -e "Hello World\c What a lovely day"
-> Hello World

Escape character;
$ echo -e "Go to \\home directory"
-> Go to \home directory

$ echo -e "Go to \"home\" directory"
-> Go to "home" directory

Unicode usage;
$ echo -e "This is turkish lira symbol-> \u20ba"
-> This is turkish lira symbol-> ₺

Wednesday, 8 November 2017

How to export/set ORACLE_SID?

Linux
export variable
$ export ORACLE_SID=XE

check variable
$ echo $ORACLE_SID

Windows
set variable
> set ORACLE_SID=XE

check variable
> echo %ORACLE_SID%