Hal Burgiss staggered into view and mumbled: > $ echo -e "first line\nsecond line" > first line > second line
Oh. That's where my problem was. The manpage didn't say I needed to put quotes around the text. The above command does work on my system. Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list