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I figured out a solution myself. You can use two echo commands to print the two strings separately, where the -n option is used for the first string to prevent the insertion of a trailing newline ...
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Trevor
·
2025-04-27T23:34:37Z (about 1 hour ago)
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- I figured out a solution myself.
You can use two `echo` commands to print the two strings separately, where the `-n` option is used for the first string to prevent the insertion a trailing newline at the end:- ```shell
- $ var='test\'
- $ echo -n $var; echo '\e[41mNOTE\e[0m'
- ```
- 
- I figured out a solution myself.
- You can use two `echo` commands to print the two strings separately, where the `-n` option is used for the first string to prevent the insertion of a trailing newline at the end:
- ```shell
- $ var='test\'
- $ echo -n $var; echo '\e[41mNOTE\e[0m'
- ```
- 
#1: Initial revision
by
Trevor
·
2025-04-27T01:04:27Z (about 24 hours ago)
I figured out a solution myself. You can use two `echo` commands to print the two strings separately, where the `-n` option is used for the first string to prevent the insertion a trailing newline at the end: ```shell $ var='test\' $ echo -n $var; echo '\e[41mNOTE\e[0m' ``` 