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interpreting \n as newline #27

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 

In the examples involving echo of a newline, such as

   echo "1\n5\n10"

some systems do not interpret '\n' properly (see 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8467424/echo-new-line-in-bash-prints-literal-
n ), so recommend you use

   printf "1\n5\n10"

instead of 'echo', or at least use the '-e' flag when needed, like this

   echo -e "1\n5\n10"

Original issue reported on code.google.com by artsa...@gmail.com on 12 Sep 2014 at 10:06

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
ok, thanks for the heads up.

Original comment by tobyro...@gmail.com on 9 Feb 2015 at 10:31