On Sunday 27 January 2013 12:47:28 Pacho Ramos wrote:
> El dom, 27-01-2013 a las 15:00 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
> > Currently, when people uses DOC_CONTENTS variable to place their desired
> > messages, they are automatically reformatted by "fmt" to get proper
> > messages (for example, splitting long lines).
> > 
> > But, in some cases, may be useful to disable this behavior and respect
> > strictly how DOC_CONTENTS was formatted, for example in that kind of
> > messages telling people to run a command and, then, requiring a new line
> > to be used. This can also be useful to append extra information to
> > DOC_CONTENTS when, for example, additional info is needed when enabling
> > a USE flag.
> 
> Well, after reading man echo I see all this is not needed, I simply need
> to use echo -e to get it understand "\n" to create new lines

printf '%b' "${foo}"
-mike

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