Go lang differentiate “\n” and line break

Question

I am trying read certain string output generated by linux command by the following code:

out, err := exec.Command(\"sh\", \"-c\", cmd).Output()

Answer 1

It's possible that your "\n" is actually the escaped version of a line break character. You can replace these with real line breaks by searching for the escaped version and replacing with the non escaped version:

strings.Replace(sourceStr, `\n`, "\n", -1)

Since string literals inside backticks can be written over multiple lines, Go escapes any line break characters it sees.