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

Question

I have a variable

char* x = "asd\nqwe\n ... " 

and I want to print it with newlines printed as newlines not backslash n. Is it possible?

Answer 1

Update: Why not just use the gdb printf command?

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

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

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

Answer 2

Use the string specifier:

print /s x