From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 12 0:18:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60E5437B401 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 00:18:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.mbox.com.au (203-134-146-019.cust.pth.iprimus.net.au [203.134.146.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C062E43EA9 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 00:18:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsd-freak@mbox.com.au) Received: from nms2.mbox.com.au (webmail.mbox.com.au [192.168.20.4]) by smtp2.mbox.com.au (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2000.05.17.04.13.p6) with ESMTP id <0H6Z00LJVYPDDT@smtp2.mbox.com.au> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:10:25 +0800 (WST) Received: from mbox.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by nms2.mbox.com.au (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H6ZYW401.LU6 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:14:28 +0800 Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 19:14:28 +1100 From: BSD Freak Subject: Newline character doesn't work To: FreeBSD Questions Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi guys, Just tried the following and it doesn't seem to work.. any explanations? %echo first line \\n second line Output is: first line \n second line Can anyone help? Thanks in advance... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Faxes delivered directly to any email address, new to mBox! Find out more http://www.mbox.com.au/fax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message