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Whence '\n'?
If you do just foo, the following justfile will write a single byte 0x0A to a file named bar: x := "\n" foo: printf '{{x}}' > bar Let's find out where that 0x0A byte comes from. just is written in Rust, and the just parser has a function called cook_string, which transforms a just string token containing escape sequences into a UTF-8 string.
computers · programming If you do just foo, the following justfile will write a single byte 0x0A to a file named bar: So when have a\n character escape in your justfile, the just binary contains a 0x0A byte in some form, which it will then write to your final string. All credit to the original author for noticing how interesting this rabbit hole is.
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