What is \c?

sonyparekh · 09-24-2008, 02:51 AM

i was trying to run a shell script..

# Script to print the user infortmation who currently login , current time & date

clear
echo "Hello $USER"
echo "Today is \c";date
echo "Number of user login: \c" ; who | wc -l
echo "Calendar"
cal
exit 0

I am unable to follow the \c and when i execute the script, \c prints as it is.

ChrisAbela · 09-24-2008, 02:58 AM

clear
echo "Hello $USER"
echo -e "Today is \c";date
echo -e "Number of user login: \c" ; who | wc -l
echo "Calendar"
cal
exit 0

sonyparekh · 09-24-2008, 03:09 AM

Got it

Thanx