Hi I am new to Cygwin and I am just trying to use the escape character example is echo "\t\t Hello" but this returns \t\t Hello and ignores the escape characters. I was looking for it to return Hello with a couple of TABS in front like it does on our True64 unix system. Is the escape character differant in Cygwin or am I missing something ??? any help would be great -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Escape-Character-tf2050870.html#a5649305 Sent from the Cygwin Users forum at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/