On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 05:01:05PM -0700, John Reiser wrote: > > Lastly since ^J is a newline you can generate one with echo "\n". > > What does work is either of these: > > $ echo '' > $ echo -e -n '\n'
Or printf '\n'. Or if he wants to use it in a command string, rather than producing it on a stream, he can use the $'\n' quoting.
