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 make echo spit it, or any other, 4-digit Unicode character. Two-digit one’s are easy. For example, echo -e "\x55", .
In addition to the answers below it should be noted that, obviously, your terminal needs to support Unicode for the output to be what you expect. gnome-terminal does a good job of this, but it isn’t necessarily turned on by default.
On macOS’s Terminal app Go to Preferences-> Encodings and choose Unicode (UTF-8).
