GNU Nano 4.0 - Hackdot

Re:GNU Nano 4.0 by mruts on Sunday March 24, 2019 @01:15PM (#19477460)

Such an insane default. Currently programming a bittorrent client and was edited files to test some functionality. Was confused for a long time until I realized nano was turning my "echo 'this is a test' > test" into "echo 'this is a test\n' > test"

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Re:GNU Nano 4.0 by nemetroid on Sunday March 24, 2019 @02:11PM (#19477764)

Running "echo 'this is a test' > test" produces a file with a newline at the end.

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Re:GNU Nano 4.0 by lexicality on Sunday March 24, 2019 @02:05PM (#19477725)

Pretty sure nano was changing your code to

    echo 'this is a test' > test\n

and then echo was adding the newline because you didn't specify -n.

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Re:GNU Nano 4.0 by pushpop on Sunday March 24, 2019 @03:06PM (#19478105)

...and also

  echo 'this is a test\n'

doesn't produce an additional new line because -e wasn't specified.

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Re:GNU Nano 4.0 by symlinkk on Sunday March 24, 2019 @01:38PM (#19477581)

Funny you mention echo, which prints a newline by default as well.

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