On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Lorenzo Prince wrote: > Try something like > > printf "first line\nsecond line\n" > > According to the manual for the echo command, > > echo -e first line\nsecond line > > should do the same thing, but it doesn't work on my system for some strange reason. > The output of that command shows > > first linensecond line > > HTH. > > Lorenzo Prince > happy Shrike user ;)
I believe it doesn't work because of the version of bash that you're using. If you do a man bash you'll see the way for your version of bash to intrepret a string is echo $'first line\nsecond line' those are ' not ` -- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
