How to use escape characters in Linux?
In Linux, the escape character is implemented using a backslash (\). By adding a backslash before special characters, you can escape them into regular characters. For example, if you want to include double quotes in a string, you can use the escape character “.
Here are some commonly used escape characters in Linux and their usage:
- \n: line break
- Tabulation Mark
- Carriage return
- Backslash
- single quotation mark
- quotation marks
For example, to create a string with newline characters in Linux, you can use the following command:
echo -e "Hello\nWorld"
This will result in:
Hello
World
Note: In some special cases, if escape characters fail to work properly, you can try enclosing the string in single or double quotes.