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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

Show threadMans RDec 23, 2020
@mwlucas All those years and you're still not using printf?
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@mansr ​ echo worked fine in 1997, why would I ever change? ​
Dec 23, 2020 at 8:01pmWeb
Show threadMans RDec 23, 2020
@mwlucas OK, how do you _portably_ echo a backslash?