message="abc
def"
echo "$message"
should work. Did you put the quotes around $message in your echo
command?
-Thomas
Am Sonntag, den 14.06.2009, 10:37 +0000 schrieb Tony Wilson:
>
>
> 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.
>
> Please help!!!!
>
> Tony
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