title: What is the Bash Escape Character "\c"?
body: <p>What is the name and function of the <code>\c</code> escape character in Bash? What is its numeric value? I have seen that <code>\cx</code> is a control character, but what about plain <code>\c</code>? It seems that:</p>
  
  <pre><code>echo -e "Hello World\c"
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  <p>and</p>
  
  <pre><code>echo -en "Hello World"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>are equivalent. However, Python doesn't use it as an escape character, and it is missing from all of the lists of escape characters I found. Is this a Bash-specific behavior?</p>