Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> I just tried this, and I get presented with a
>
>
> prompt.
Can you clarify? What shell are you using, and what kind of prompt did
you see?? Did you paste exactly:
uc() { /usr/bin/printf \\u$1; };
as the first line and
echo $(uc 2639)
as the second? You should see a smiley face (☹) for this example.
Matt Flaschen