[plug] ridiculous UNIX one-liner
Craig Ringer
craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Fri Jan 31 18:44:15 WST 2003
>>My point was that tab and newline escapes can't be used in bash as a
>>normal part of a command line.
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> \^V^I and \<hit-enter-key> seem to work fine. (-:
That's what I use, but \t etc are much more readable on the command line
and easier to come back to out of cmdline history etc. Then again, I
used to use perl for everything and have been learning how to use the
command line properly slowly. Next stop: sed and awk.
Craig
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