Bjarni, On 1/1/19 10:51 PM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > Use '\e' for printing the escape character, not '\\'. You do not say why such a change is desirable. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/