I want to turn off backslashing of quotes and such from the shell

[Guest]

I do something like:
result=`cat mess.html`
p result

and all my quotes in my html file are suddenly backslashed. Is there any way
to turn that off?

xc

 

[Nobuyoshi Nakada]

Hi,

At Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:47:01 +0900,

result=`cat mess.html`

puts result

 

[Anthony Martinez]

--LwW0XdcUbUexiWVK
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi,
=20
At Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:47:01 +0900,

puts result

Or

print result

if you don't want an extra newline appended.

=20
--=20
Nobu Nakada
=20

--LwW0XdcUbUexiWVK
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFGbPSzKaiGM/xGKzQRAv7XAKCJH3EwjQhtVBXLhufUIkEHUPeZNQCdHWO9
sUzvb+ux0C9U4GR8Vy7fQd4=
=KlZo
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--LwW0XdcUbUexiWVK--

 

[Xeno Campanoli]

Yeah, looks like I only get the backslashes inserted when I use "p"
instead of puts and print. Thanks.

puts result

Or

print result

if you don't want an extra newline appended.

 

[Gregory Brown]

Yeah, looks like I only get the backslashes inserted when I use "p"
instead of puts and print. Thanks.

That's a feature.

seltzer:~/devel/bazaar/EarGTD sandal$ irboo"
=> "foo\noo"foo
oo

p looks for the .inspect output, wheras puts uses .to_s
useful for debugging.