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"…

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

How to enter \n with backtick syntax?

Henrique_Becker September 29, 2020, 9:12pm 4

I am not sure if I understood the problem correctly, this seems to work as I would have expected:

julia> run(`echo -e "hello\nworld"`)
hello
world
Process(`echo -e 'hello\nworld'`, ProcessExited(0))

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