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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:38:15 +0000
From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com>
To: "Colin J. Raven" <duiker@haggis.nl>
Cc: BSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Forcing a Line Break in .profile
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On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:20:54PM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote:
> Hi all!
> Does anyone know how to force the shell to create a line break between
> elements in a users' .profile output to screen at login????

echo (either the shell builtin or /bin/echo) will do what you want.

Cheers,

	Scott

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