[nequo]

TIL:

  dash$ x="foo\nasd"
  dash$ echo "$x"
  foo
  asd
  dash$ printf "%s\n" "$x"
  foo\nasd
  dash$

  zsh% x="foo\nasd"
  zsh% echo "$x"
  foo
  asd
  zsh% printf "%s\n" "$x"
  foo\nasd
  zsh%

  bash$ x="foo\nasd"
  bash$ echo "$x"
  foo\nasd
  bash$ printf "%s\n" "$x"
  foo\nasd
  bash$

[remram]

Wow, TIL indeed. That's conformant to the Single UNIX Specification as well: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/echo.htm...

[norvvryo]

Enlightening

From POSIX:

>echo - write arguments to standard output

>If the first operand is -n, or if any of the operands contain a <backslash> character, the results are implementation-defined.

[fragmede]

    bash$ echo -e $x
    foo
    asd
    bash$