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How to replace a character by a newline in Vim

August 26, 2022 by Tarik

Use \r instead of \n. Substituting by \n inserts a null character into the text. To get a newline, use \r. When searching for a newline, you’d still use \n, however. This asymmetry is due to the fact that \n and \r do slightly different things: \n matches an end of line (newline), whereas \r … Read more

Categories vim Tags escaping, newline, replace, vi, vim Leave a comment

Echo newline in Bash prints literal \n

August 22, 2022 by Tarik

Use printf instead: printf “hello\nworld\n” printf behaves more consistently across different environments than echo.

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