diff options
| author | lemonez <36384768+lemonez@users.noreply.github.com> | 2020-04-16 17:37:30 -0700 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-04-16 17:37:30 -0700 |
| commit | fb76c0b7fed31d7630023b85453a38a01802d026 (patch) | |
| tree | d835dff62f721c89bf0ba9cf0e59ff52b3102037 | |
| parent | ecca2c38376bb6ac63c148347d6b371ed85bc1b7 (diff) | |
fix small typo
pass -e flag to echo to interpret escape characters correctly
| -rw-r--r-- | bash.html.markdown | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index 856db706..00ee0632 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -225,7 +225,9 @@ cat file.txt # We can also read the file using `cat`: Contents=$(cat file.txt) -echo "START OF FILE\n$Contents\nEND OF FILE" # "\n" prints a new line character +# "\n" prints a new line character +# "-e" to interpret the newline escape characters as escape characters +echo -e "START OF FILE\n$Contents\nEND OF FILE" # => START OF FILE # => [contents of file.txt] # => END OF FILE |