In Bash how to read the file:

`test.txt`:
```
a
b
c
```

as `a\nb\nc`?
Jul 7, 9:43pm

In Bash, you can read the file test.txt and output its contents as a single string with newlines represented as \n using the following command:

bash
awk '{printf "%s\\n", $0}' test.txt | tr -d '\n'

Explanation:

  • awk '{printf "%s\\n", $0}' test.txt: This prints each line followed by a literal \n (not a newline character).
  • tr -d '\n': This removes the actual newline characters that awk would otherwise output.

Output:

For your test.txt file, this will output:

text
a\nb\nc

Alternatively, you can use paste and sed:

bash
paste -sd '\\n' test.txt

This will also produce:

text
a\nb\nc
Jul 7, 9:43pm

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