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What is the name and function of the \c escape character in Bash? What is its numeric value? I have seen that \cx is a control character, but what about plain \c? It seems that:
echo -e "Hello World\c"
and
echo -en "Hello World"
are equivalent. However, Python doesn’t use it as an escape character, and it is missing from all of the lists of escape characters I found. Is this a Bash-specific behavior?
That’s actually specific to some versions of
echo(I’m pretty sure that\ccame from SysV while the-nversion was a BSD-ism).It simply means don’t output the trailing newline.