The only character you need to escape in the whole sequence is the
backslash. You only have to escape a $ if it precedes a { to disambiguate
from a variable dereference.This works for me: $ cat w.cmake file(WRITE "w.txt" "$'\\r'") $ cmake -P w.cmake $ cat w.txt $'\r' HTH, David On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Alan W. Irwin <[email protected]>wrote: > After a lot of thrashing around I finally discovered that > > file(WRITE <filename> "\$""'""\\r""'") > > worked to write the literal string > > $'\r' > > to a file, i.e, so that the od -a result was > > $ ' \ r ' > > Is there an easier way to write this literal string to a file that I > missed? > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin > > Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, > University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). > > Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state > implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time > Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting > software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project > (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); > and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). > __________________________ > > Linux-powered Science > __________________________ > -- > > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/** > opensource/opensource.html<http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html> > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/**CMake_FAQ<http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ> > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.cmake.org/mailman/**listinfo/cmake<http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake> >
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