On 30 April 2017 at 15:01, Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.fors...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm stuck trying to pass $'\t' to bash via Nix multi-line strings:
>
> nix-repl> ''cut -d $'\t' -f 1''
> error: syntax error, unexpected $undefined, expecting IND_STR or
> DOLLAR_CURLY or IND_STRING_CLOSE, at (string):1:10
Oh, it was only missing double single-quotes before the dollar sign.
What tripped me was that the documentation says ${ is special in
strings, not $'.
Best regards,
Bjørn Forsman
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