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		a1369209993 on Sept 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped... Oh, neat. It's `echo hel$\x70` in my shell, but I didn't know bash had a similar mechanism.

belgesel on Sept 22, 2021 [–]

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

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