C Linux Pro

Character combinations consisting of a backslash (\) followed by a letter or by a combination of digits are called "escape sequences".

Escape sequences provides general and extensible mechanism for representing hard to type invisiable charecters.

The following is a list of escape sequences.

Escape Sequences in C
Escape sequence	Charecter	What it does
\a	Audible alert	Rings the terminal's bell.
\b	Backspace	Moves the cursor back one space.
\f	form feed	Moves the cursor to the next logical page.
\n	new line	Prints the new line.
\r	carriage return	Prints the carriage return.
\t	horizontal tab	Prints a horizontal tab.
\v	vertical tab	Prints a vertical tab.
\\	back slash	Prints a back slash.
\?	Question mark	prints a question mark.
\'	single quote	Prints a single quote.
\"	double quote	Prints a double quote.