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nslu2-linux@..., Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@...> wrote:
>
> 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
> --
> Kumar Appaiah
>
That works from the command line, but not in script!
string=`echo -e "A\nB\nCDE\nF"`
echo $string
output:
A B CDE F
