Escape Sequences – A Quick Guide

Shell control characters may seem complicated at first glance, but once you play around with them they become simple and powerful. With this knowledge you can finally understand the PS1 environment variable, have beautiful command line applications, or as in my case, make a nyancat run through your screen representing the progress of you test suite.

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