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Why is echo "\*" the same as echo "\\*"
Title.
echo "\*" has the exact same output as echo "\\*", \*. I am using GNU bash 5.2.15.
I expected echo "\\*" to output \*, but I do not know why echo "\*" ...
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How to print a double quote in POSIX scripting?
So far, I've been using "\"" to print a double quote:
$ x="abc def"
$ echo "x=\"$x\""
x="abc def"
However, it seems like that behavior is ...
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how to arrange quotes in this bash command
my_cmd --attr1 $(($1-$2)) --attr2 $(($1-$2+$3)) --attr3 $(($2+1))
I have this command and I would like to debug it (put it in echo and see how command will look like) but I am struggling with ...
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Shell command executed differently in a terminal and script
The following sequence of commands
ch=`echo "b_d" | sed 's/_/\\\\\\\\_/'`
echo $ch
when executed in a terminal or via source give an output
b\\_d
When ran as a scipt
sh script.sh
where the ...
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Is it dangerous to run echo without quotes?
I've seen couple of similar topics, but they are referring to not quoting variables, which I know could lead to unwanted results.
I saw this code and was wondering would if it be possible to inject ...
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Why does the command echo `echo \\\z` output \z?
The command echo $(echo \\\z) is from the book
, I don’t understand why it outputs
\z
I think it should output
z
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Why echo command does not need "-e" option when escaping "$" character with a backslash
This is regarding bash builtin echo. Per Bash documentation the -e option enables interpretation of backslash escapes.
If I execute echo "Total Amount \$500", I see the expected output Total ...
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Echo new line and string beginning \t
Sure, echo -e can be used so that \n is understood as a new line. The problem is when I want to echo something beginning with \t e.g. "\test".
So let's say I want to perform echo -e "test\n\\test". I ...
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Why does dash's echo expand \\\\ differently to bash's echo?
I have a little open source project that for various reasons I've tried to write in reasonably portable shell script. Its automated integration tests check that hostile characters in path expressions ...
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What is the difference between single quoted $'string' and double quoted $"string" in bash?
I was trying to execute new line using echo and tried following two commands:
First command:
echo $'Hello World\nThis is a new line'
Response:
Hello World
This is a new line
Second command:
echo ...
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trying to escape quotes
I have tried numerous ways to print this line in a script:
alias myname='export PATH="/path/to/bin:$PATH"'
All of them have different problems.
The last I tried (and remember!) is:
printf '%s' '%s\...
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What are the effects of double quotes in echo statements? [closed]
When writing a Bash script that contains messages for the user, I can write
echo Processing files...
or
echo "Processing files..."
In this and many other cases, the output will be the same....
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Escape characters from echo -e
I have the following in my .bashrc file I use for a log:
function log(){
RED="\e[0;31m"
RESET="\e[0m"
echo -e "${RED}$(date)" "${RESET}$*" >> "$HOME"/mylog.txt
}
But when I do something ...
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Why there is such a difference in execution time of echo and cat?
Answering this question caused me to ask another question:
I thought the following scripts do the same thing and the second one should be much faster, because the first one uses cat that needs to open ...
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Bash - syntax in echo
When using /bin/bash, what is the difference between the following two cases:
echo $IFS
echo "$IFS"
I observe different outputs.
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echo variable with content from command substitution
I wrote a very basic script of command substitution which is below:
#!/bin/bash
files=$(ls *.fastq);
echo $files
The directory contains bunch of .fastq file and I just want to use echo command to ...
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Echoing something with multiple quotes and key characters (&, $, !, etc.)
Let's say you have to echo this into a file:
RZW"a4k6[)b!^"%*X6Evf
How do you do it?
My actual "line" to echo is a 2048 characters line.
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echo \\* - bash backslash escape behavior, is it evaluated backwards?
So in bash,
When I do
echo \*
*
This seems right, as * is escaped and taken literally.
But I can't understand that,
when I do
echo \\*
\*
I thought the first backslash escaped the second one ...
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Is there a difference between double quoting a variable or a whole line in echo
When you type, for example,
echo Variable "$var" is not initialised.
and
echo "Variable $var is not initialised."
the front end result is the exact same (as far as I know, at least). But I was ...
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How do I echo an expression with both single and double quotes?
I have tried many things, but I'm new to the shell. Is it possible to have both double and single quotes within an echo?
I want to generate echo "scan 'LPV',{FILTER => "(PrefixFilter ('MP1-Eq1')"}"...
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echo bytes to a file
I'm trying to connect my rasberry Pi to some display using the i2c bus.
To get started I wanted to manually write stuff, bytes in particular to a file.
How do you write specific bytes to a file?
I ...
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What is the difference between echo `date`, echo "`date`", and echo '`date`'?
What is the difference between these three commands?
echo `date`
echo "`date`"
echo '`date`'
I am confused on what the differences actually are. I think that when the ' are around it means that it ...
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Quoted vs unquoted string expansion
for i in $(xrandr); do echo "$i" ; done
for i in "$(xrandr)"; do echo "$i"; done
for i in "$(xrandr)"; do echo $i; done
I understand why 1 differs from 2. But why does 3 give a different output from ...
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Printing colored text using script
When I type below command in the shell I get the OUTPUT in green color.
Command
echo "\033[32mCONNECTING TO abpwrk\033[m";
Output(in green color)
CONNECTING TO abpwrk
But if I use the same ...
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Why am I observing different behaviour of echo?
I observed the below behavior of echo
#!/bin/bash
x=" hello"
echo $x
echo "$x"
Now when I run the above code I get
ronnie@ronnie:~$ bash test.sh
hello
hello
ronnie@ronnie:~$
So, can someone ...
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Why is echo ignoring my quote characters?
The echo command isn't including the complete text that I give it. For example, if I do:
$ echo ' echo PARAM=` grep $ARG /var/tmp/setfile | awk '{print $2}' ` '
It outputs:
echo PARAM=` ...
Diana