Literal conversion specifiers (GNU Coreutils 9.0)
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21.1.3 Literal conversion specifiers
date
conversion specifiers that produce literal strings.
- ‘
%%
’ - a literal %
- ‘
%n
’ - a newline
- ‘
%t
’ - a horizontal tab