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No need to invoke a deity to do that... echo 'Hi!' | tee "$(printf "foo\nbar\tqu ux.txt")" cat foo$'\n'bar$'\t'qu' 'ux.txt IIRC the latter only works in k

No need to invoke a deity to do that... echo 'Hi!' | tee "$(printf "foo\nbar\tqu ux.txt")" cat foo$'\n'bar$'\t'qu' 'ux.txt IIRC the latter only works in ksh93+, but the former should be fine pretty much in any shell.

JdeBP 6y ago
... except if one uses \c by mistake. \c has unspecified behaviour, and is one of the things that varies widely from one implementation of printf to another. * https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/558665/5132 https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/558665/5132