Apparently, \n doesn’t work in backticks: julia> `echo "hello\nworld"` `echo 'hello\nworld'` julia> collect(`echo "hello\nworld"`) 2-element Array{String,1}: "echo" "hello\\nworld" Is there a better way to pass "hello\nworld" to echo than: julia> hello = "hello\nworld" "hello\nworld"…

How to enter \n with backtick syntax?

stevengj September 29, 2020, 7:18pm 3

`echo $"hello\nworld"` — using $ lets you interpolate Julia string syntax.

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