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Re:Clear Your Terminal in Style by 3xblah on Thursday March 05, 2020 @04:16PM (#22498378)
Can substitute a forward slash for the 0 and remove the quotes

   printf \\33c
Another way is to use a program that converts hex to binary. A short script to use when there is no clear, tput, etc, e.g., xxd or nc-data

   exec echo 1b63 |exec xxd -p -r

   echo -e '27\n99\n' |exec nc-data -g

   exec echo |exec sed '1i\
   27 \
   99 

   ' |exec nc-data -g
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Re:Clear Your Terminal in Style by teddyh on Thursday March 05, 2020 @05:25PM (#22499007)
\ is a backslash

/ is a forward slash, a.k.a. simply “slash”

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Re:Clear Your Terminal in Style by 3xblah on Thursday March 05, 2020 @06:56PM (#22499740)
Not sure why I always get this wrong. Maybe it is because when I draw these characters on a surface, I start from the top not the bottom. Hence the line goes forward for a "backslash" and backward for a "forward slash". What is the etymology of these terms?

Probably better to just use "escape" for backslash and "slash" for forward slash.

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