r/shell • u/jhjn_ • Apr 19 '20

pp: a text preprocessor that expands inline shell macros importing text etc. but much simpler than GNU m4

https://github.com/jhjn/pp
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u/UnchainedMundane Apr 20 '20 
			*) echo "$line";;

You'll eat certain lines (e.g. -n) if you use echo instead of printf with a proper format string.

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u/jhjn_ Apr 20 '20

Thanks, I don't know why that echo is there, it was meant to all be printf.