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Old Jul 3rd, 2005, 9:10 AM   #8
mackenga
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Wouldn't there be an extra round of substitution anyway? This would mean using \\n was equivalent to \n, so you'd still be as well to save a byte, but I think you'd end up with a newline as the field separator either way. Keeping track of quoting and substitution is the main reason you'll rarely see me outside of tclsh. I'm too stupid for bash.
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