How to print a null-terminated string with newlines without showing backslash escapes in gdb?

Question

I have a variable ``` char* x = "asd
qwe
 ... " ``` and I want to print it with newlines printed as newlines not backslash n. Is it possible?

Accepted Answer

Update: Why not just use the gdb `printf` command?

```
(gdb) printf "%s", x
asd
qwe
...
(gdb)
```

Old answer: From within the debugger you can execute commands. Just call `printf`

```
(gdb) call printf("%s", x)
asd
qwe
...
(gdb)
```

Solution