Timeline for Why does `htop` display `$'\t'` as `?` in `sort` command?
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| Jan 17, 2023 at 17:17 | answer | added | Turn Dealer | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 16, 2023 at 23:40 | comment | added | Charles Duffy | (And unlike bash, POSIX sh doesn't have any way to write a tab with only printable characters, so there isn't really a good portable rendering available) | |
| Jan 16, 2023 at 23:35 | comment | added | Charles Duffy |
Important to remember that the command line that htop retrieved from procfs and is displaying doesn't contain the (shell-specific) four-character $'\t' sequence but instead just a 1-character tab literal that the shell parsed that sequence into.
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| Jan 16, 2023 at 22:59 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jan 16, 2023 at 15:17 | vote | accept | paropunam | ||
| Jan 16, 2023 at 15:09 | answer | added | Stephen Kitt | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jan 16, 2023 at 14:58 | history | asked | paropunam | CC BY-SA 4.0 |