On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:16:44 +0000, Prasad, Ramit wrote: >> To enter the newline, I typed Ctrl-Q to tell bash to treat the next >> character as a literal, and then typed Ctrl-J to get a newline. > > That sounds complicated, my version of bash lets me type > 'foo<enter>bar'<enter> for the same effect.
Well, I learned something new about bash. On the other hand, the Ctrl-Q next-char-is-literal trick works for entering control characters that otherwise don't have a key on the keyboard. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list