Yes, it does the same thing that the shell does. On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Matt Bauman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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" >>> >>
