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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