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mfontani on June 4, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Beauty of Unix Pipelines

No need to invoke a deity to do that...

  echo 'Hi!' | tee "$(printf "foo\nbar\tqu ux.txt")"
  cat foo$'\n'bar$'\t'qu' 'ux.txt

IIRC the latter only works in ksh93+, but the former should be fine pretty much in any shell.

JdeBP on June 5, 2020 [–]

... except if one uses \c by mistake. \c has unspecified behaviour, and is one of the things that varies widely from one implementation of printf to another.

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/558665/5132

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