Lack of characters

[Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)]

 In addition to all that has been said.

e.g. 'tar' has it's own sense of valid output. The output of "tar -tf
archive.tar" where the archive contains files with filenames using "accented
characters" will look like:
	fran\347ais/
	portugu\352s/
This can't be used as input to any command I know of. There is a workaround
though.

$ echo -e 'fran\347ais/\n->\\<-backslash-test\nportugu\352s' | cl
français/
->\<-backslash-test
português

i.e.
$ tar -tf archive.tar | cl
will produce a human readable version of the archive contents.

Just slightly tested script appended below.
Please, *DO* comment - on its robustness in particular.

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden, 59~14'N, 17~12'E. >17~C avg/d now.
~ <=> degree

-- cl == cleanline --
#!/bin/bash

sed -e 's.\\.\\\\.g' |
 (
     read n
     while [ ! -z "$n" ]
     do
       echo -e "$n"
       read n
     done
 )
--

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