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

Answer 1

Use the string specifier:

print /s x

Answer 2

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)