Question: how to produce multiline strings?

[datspike]

Newline character seem to always get escaped to \\n

spike@aelesinpc ~> jo -p chat_id=$TGCHAT_ID text="$CI_COMMIT_AUTHOR \n $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH"
{
   "text": " \\n "
}
spike@aelesinpc ~> jo -p chat_id=$TGCHAT_ID text="$CI_COMMIT_AUTHOR \\n $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH"
{
   "text": " \\n "
}

[gromgit]

Bare newlines are not permitted in JSON strings. See the string grammar in https://www.json.org/json-en.html.

That said, you actually encoded a literal backslash followed by a literal n. Here's how to encode a newline in a JSON string with jo:

$ CI_COMMIT_AUTHOR=aho CI_COMMIT_BRANCH=main

# actual newline
$ jo -p text="$CI_COMMIT_AUTHOR 
 $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH"
{
   "text": "aho \n main"
}

# bash-generated newline
$ jo -p text="$CI_COMMIT_AUTHOR "$'\n'" $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH"
{
   "text": "aho \n main"
}

[datspike]

@gromgit thanks a lot.