How to print a line with a terminating null character with newline characters without showing a backslash in gdb?

Question

I have a variable

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

and I want to print it with newlines printed as newlines, not the 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: Inside the debugger, you can execute commands. Just call printf

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

Answer 2

Use the string specifier:

 print /sx