On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:42 PM, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:16 -0400, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: >> Hello! >> <snip> >> >> To see what I mean, use gnome-terminal with >> >> echo '\' >> >> in bash, ksh, etc. > <snip> > $ echo \\ > \ > $ Hmm, well, I tried what you said: $ echo '\' \ $ Nothing strange there. mhr