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Escapes
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   The escapes that `-printf' and `-fprintf' recognize are:

`\a'
     Alarm bell.

`\b'
     Backspace.

`\c'
     Stop printing from this format immediately and flush the output.

`\f'
     Form feed.

`\n'
     Newline.

`\r'
     Carriage return.

`\t'
     Horizontal tab.

`\v'
     Vertical tab.

`\\'
     A literal backslash (`\').

   A `\' character followed by any other character is treated as an
ordinary character, so they both are printed, and a warning message is
printed to the standard error output (because it was probably a typo).