The backtick command syntax looks like it ignores newlines.
http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.3/manual/running-external-programs/
If you're constructing shell commands, that is definitely the way to go:
julia> cmd = `echo hello
world`
`echo hello world`
julia> run(cmd)
hello world
On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 11:43:20 AM UTC-4, J Luis wrote:
>
> Thanks,
>
> I know I can do it this way but I guess I was caught by surprise when
> converting a bash script that had line breaks for readability and those
> line breaks turned out to break the converted code due to the insertion of
> \n characters.
>
> sexta-feira, 28 de Agosto de 2015 às 10:43:52 UTC+1, Nils Gudat escreveu:
>>
>> I must admit that I don't entirely understand your original example, so
>> I'm not sure this will help, but given that - as you pointed out - you can
>> add linebreaks into code, why don't you create your string as
>>
>> "this is a"*
>> "multiline string"
>>
>
