[CentOS] Gnome-terminal's backslashes look like Ws with a horizontal line through -- how to get a backslash?
William L. Maltby
CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.comFri May 9 20:42:17 UTC 2008
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On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:16 -0400, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: > Hello! > > I've just started trying gnome-terminal (instead of xterm) because of > its "tabbing" facility. However, I note that with it backslashes appear > something like a W with a horizontal line through it. Any known way to > get a backslash to appear as a backslash? > > To see what I mean, use gnome-terminal with > > echo '\' > > in bash, ksh, etc. You might need to post more info. Here on a box-stock fully updated CentOS 5 (haven't booted the new kernel yet) $ uname -a Linux centos501.homegroannetworking 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Wed Mar 5 11:36:49 EST 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5 (Final) $ lsb_release -a LSB Version: :core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch Distributor ID: CentOS Description: CentOS release 5 (Final) Release: 5 Codename: Final Using GNOME Terminal 2.16.0, all works as expected. $ echo \\ \ $ > > Regards, > Chip Campbell > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill
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