Re: conditional aliases are broken

[Roman Rakus]

On 08/18/2011 07:57 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/18/2011 08:53 AM, Roman Rakus wrote:
> > On 08/18/2011 04:38 PM, Sam Steingold wrote:
> > > how do I write a function that would print the same as
> > > $ \ls | cat
> > f3(){ printf "%s\n" "$@"; }
>
> "\n" looks funny in shell; even though POSIX requires that "\n" does 
> not treat the \ as an escape but as a literal character, 
> stylistically, I prefer writing "\\n" or '\n' to make it clear that I 
> intended a literal backslash.
Interesting. I would expect that "\\n" in printf will print out `\n'. 
Good to know.

RR