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@hoexter hoexter commented Sep 21, 2018

The debian default "/bin/sh" is dash. The build in echo
implementation in dash does not support "-e", so it echos
a verbatim "-e" but the \t are none the less parsed and
represented as a tabulator.
In case someone changed "/bin/sh" to a none default shell,
it might result in varbatim "\t" in the output.

Alternative would be to call "/bin/echo -e" explicitly.

The debian default "/bin/sh" is dash. The build in echo
implementation in dash does not support "-e", so it echos
a verbatim "-e" but the \t are none the less parsed and
represented as a tabulator.
In case someone changed "/bin/sh" to a none default shell,
it might result in varbatim "\t" in the output.

Alternative would be to call "/bin/echo -e" explicitly.
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