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With echo: $ echo Hello, world! Hello, world! With printf: $ printf 'Hello, world!\n' Hello, world! As a file: #!/bin/sh printf '%s\n' 'Hello, world!'

$ for shell in ash bash dash ksh ksh93 zsh; do > $shell -c "echo '\\\\'$shell'\\\\'" > done \\ash\\ \\bash\\ \dash\ \pdksh\ \\ksh93\\ \zsh\ 'echo' can only be used consistently, across implementations, if its arguments do not contain any backslashes (reverse-solidi...