Pipe echo to file

Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. The quotes around command substitution preserve whitespaces. GypsyCosmonaut GypsyCosmonaut 3, 4 4 gold badges 29 29 silver badges 54 54 bronze badges.

You must also watch out for backslashes inside them even inside single quotes , and " if quoted. Thank you! Note however that when using xargs echo same as xargs btw as echo is the default command , it's the echo command from the file system that will be run, not the shell's builtin echo command.

Also note that xargs expects its input in a very specific format where blanks, newlines, quotes, backslashes have special meaning. Note that Unix compliant echo s do backslash escape expansion by default and output -e upon echo -e.

Question is, why would you actually want to do this? Motlib Motlib 1 1 1 bronze badge. This question is old, though, it's much more satisfying to answer questions that are not already answered!

Not quite. There is a subtle difference. The first back-tick not preceded by a backslash terminates the command.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Now I need something to parse my command line. This is a brute force hack, but it works. The weird return type is a tuple , an entity that contain many values, in this case three named strings. It bangs away at the command line string and parses it into a Command , some Text and possibly a File to redirect to. I only changed a bit of the core of your Main function. It ends up looking like:. The TryGetValue call on the dictionary will return true if the command text is in the dictionary.

If it returns true, then the commandAction will represent the function to call so it calls it. If it returns false, then the command is not in the dictionary, so an error is signaled to the user. And finally, you don't need to put the string to echo in quotes.

It just echoes whatever it finds. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 1 year, 7 months ago. Active 1 year, 7 months ago. Talha is a contributor at Linux Hint with a vision to bring value and do useful things for the world. He loves to read, write and speak about Linux, Data, Computers and Technology.

Unix and Linux operating systems use this command for sending the output of any process, output or program as an input to another process. These operating systems permit the connection between the stdout and stdin commands. Talha Saif Malik Talha is a contributor at Linux Hint with a vision to bring value and do useful things for the world. Email Required, but never shown.

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