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Note that depending on the shell and what shell option are set, echo may do special things with backslash sequences, thus not preserving the variable's value. It is better to use printf for variable data. Likewise, read may well do special processing of backslashes too (see here).

Kusalananda
– Kusalananda ♦

2020-12-17 10:08:35 +00:00
Commented Dec 17, 2020 at 10:08
Thanks, added the -r flag to read to avoid this.

Alexander
– Alexander

2020-12-17 11:28:42 +00:00
Commented Dec 17, 2020 at 11:28

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create code fences with backticks ` or tildes ~
```
like so
```
add language identifier to highlight code
```python
def function(foo):
print(foo)
```
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