Allegedly, on or about 22 July 2016, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > As Rick has said, it wasn't clear you meant a literal \ n (i.e. a '\' > and an 'n') rather than the '\n' (ASCII 012) which is the standard > Unix/Linux end-of-line character, but so be it.
I had wondered about the original poster, too. But... If you're going to do representations of Control + N, etc., for those low-numbered ASCII control codes, then traditionally its with a carat symbol: ^N e.g. As displayed by applications giving you an interpretation of a file contents, such as some hexdump programs. And on-line terminals over modems, etc. The slash N representation is more a case of Linux code escaping, entered using the terminal into some type of editor, more than what's normally found *in* a text file. Not that /that/ stops any editor from using such a sequence, if it's also going to be used to interpret the file when it shows it back to you, particularly file meant to be special rather than plain text. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Using Windows software is like coating all your handtools with sewage. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
