> 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.
You don't need to put quotes around the text but you do need to escape the \ to stop the shell removing it before echo sees it. This also works: echo -e first line\\nsecond line -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
