Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 21:34:57 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Newline character doesn't work Message-ID: <20021212083457.GA34890@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <c42a6dc3ea00.c3ea00c42a6d@mbox.com.au> References: <c42a6dc3ea00.c3ea00c42a6d@mbox.com.au>
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On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 07:14:28PM +1100, BSD Freak wrote:
> 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
According to the man-page, echo(1) is working as advertised. What you
want is printf(1).
$ printf "first line\nsecond line\n"
first line
second line
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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