On 08/18/2011 08:53 AM, Roman Rakus wrote:
On 08/18/2011 04:38 PM, Sam Steingold wrote:
how do I write a function that would print the same as
$ \ls | cat
f3(){ printf "%s\n" "$@"; }
"\n" looks funny in shell; even though POSIX requires that "\n" does not
treat the \ as an escape but as a literal character, stylistically, I
prefer writing "\\n" or '\n' to make it clear that I intended a literal
backslash.
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