I'm new to Bash scripting, and this here is just puzzling to me. I'm adding ASCII art to a project, and can't seem to figure out how to escape certain characters. Would someone please help me get the following code below to work?
Whenever I tried adding slashes as escape characters to fix the errors, the slashes also wound up printing to console on execution. This ruins the image. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong, so I've posted the code below in the hopes that someone will take a moment to show me the right way. Please? I've removed the quotes to prevent more clutter.
echo -en "\E[31m"
echo
echo _,.
echo ,` -.)
echo '( _/'-\\-.
echo /,|`--._,-^| ,
echo \_| |`-._/|| ,'|
echo | `-, / | / /
echo | || | / /
echo `r-._||/ __ / /
echo __,-<_ )`-/ `./ /
echo ' \ `---' \ / /
echo | |./ /
echo / // /
echo \_/' \ |/ /
echo | | _,^-'/ /
echo | , `` (\/ /_
echo \,.->._ \X-=/^
echo ( / `-._//^`
echo `Y-.____(__}
echo | {__)
echo ()`
Quotes in bash are important syntactic elements, not clutter. However, to print ASCII art, save yourself the trouble of proper quoting and escaping and just use a here document:
cat << "EOF"
_,.
,` -.)
'( _/'-\\-.
/,|`--._,-^| ,
\_| |`-._/|| ,'|
| `-, / | / /
| || | / /
`r-._||/ __ / /
__,-<_ )`-/ `./ /
' \ `---' \ / /
| |./ /
/ // /
\_/' \ |/ /
| | _,^-'/ /
| , `` (\/ /_
\,.->._ \X-=/^
( / `-._//^`
`Y-.____(__}
| {__)
()`
EOF
Make sure not to remove the quotes here. They are not optional.