How do you echo a 4-digit Unicode character in Bash?

Question

I\'d like to add the Unicode skull and crossbones to my shell prompt (specifically the \'SKULL AND CROSSBONES\' (U+2620)), but I can\'t figure out the magic incantation to m

Answer 1

If you don't mind a Perl one-liner:

$ perl -CS -E 'say "\x{2620}"'
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-CS enables UTF-8 decoding on input and UTF-8 encoding on output. -E evaluates the next argument as Perl, with modern features like say enabled. If you don't want a newline at the end, use print instead of say.