On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 8:26 PM Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote:
> I thought, for a moment, that bash already used $'...' quoting for > newlines, but it turns out that's false. At least for declare -p. > It would be nice if it did, though. Newlines, carriage returns, escape > characters, etc. > It does in some cases: $ a=($'new \n line' $'and \e esc'); declare -p a declare -a a=([0]=$'new \n line' [1]=$'and \E esc')