On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Ezra Nugroho wrote: > So -e does it for echo. I would never think of that. > > > What I really want to do is the following: > > msg=$(msg)\n"new message" > msg=$(msg)\n"new message" > msg=$(msg)\n"new message" > msg=$(msg)\n"new message" > > cat msg |mail -s REPORT [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This time \n doesn't work, everything is sent in the mail in one long line. > That's my real headache. > > Thanks again,
I think that those \n need to be within the quotes in order to be interpreted as a newline character.... Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
