> First problem: If you are assigning a string to a variable, > you need to put quotes around the string. That shows that "-p" > doesn't insert newlines: > > > x="$'foo\nbar'" > > declare -p x > declare -- x="\$'foo\\nbar'"
You do not have any newlines in that string, so of course the demonstration with -p will show no newlines. >> What are you trying to do? > Read var & func defs via a 'read' of 1 line. In your variable "x" above, you have encoded the string in a format which contains no raw newlines and which can be "eval"ed to produce the original contents. Why don't you encode the function the same way?
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