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Me: I've been shell scripting for a quarter century now!

Also me: Dang it, why is this "echo \n" not giving me a newline??? #sysadmin

Dec 23, 2020 at 7:28pmWeb
Show threadMans RDec 23, 2020
@mwlucas All those years and you're still not using printf?
Show threadalt for @[email protected]Dec 23, 2020
@mansr ​ echo worked fine in 1997, why would I ever change? ​
Show threadMans RDec 23, 2020
@mwlucas OK, how do you _portably_ echo a backslash?
Show threadGrooveStompDec 23, 2020
@mwlucas I once read that instead of putting "advanced Linux user" on your resume, you should put: "Linux user for 25 years." I believe that advice was exactly for this reason. :-)
Show threadPhil PennockDec 23, 2020
@mwlucas I have given up on echo for anything more than a bare echo to get a blank line. Anything else uses printf(1).