[colug-432] Portable Visible Tabs in Shell Scripts

[Scott Merrill]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:48 PM,  <jep200404 at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, it seems to be a bashism and to not work in
> (plain) bourne shells.
> I've been trying to find a portable way of _visibly_ putting
> tab characters in shell scripts.
> The ways that dash and bash do it seem complementary.
> Even echo behaves differently in dash and bash.

Jim, for the benefit of the class, can you elaborate on the overall
benefit of being sh-compatible? What, specifically, are your reasons
for wanting to avoid bash-isms?