On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:37:11AM -0000, Tony Wilson wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm kind of embarrassed to ask this but I'm stuck!
>
> I'm writing a shell script and need to insert a line feed into a string.
> For some reason \n does not work on the NSLU2.
> Nor does stuff like:
>
> message="Subject:Test
>
> Body of message here"
>
> (ie newline within string)
>
> Echo is not adding a new line when used to extend the string.
Here's one way:
[kumar@bluemoon ~] echo -e "A\nB\nCDE\nF"
A
B
CDE
F
i.e., the use of "-e" recoginized backslash escape sequences.
HTH.
Kumar
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Kumar Appaiah
