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> One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p.

> It ended up being the last straw that pushed me to Ubuntu, and I've never looked back.

On Ubuntu, that would be:

  $ Q=$($(echo /usr/bin/*rintf) \\x70)
  $ echo hel$Q
  help
right?


  $ echo hel$'\x70'
  help


Oh, neat. It's `echo hel$\x70` in my shell, but I didn't know bash had a similar mechanism.


even echo has it $ echo -e "hel\x70"




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