Newline character doesn't work

2002-12-12 Thread BSD Freak
Hi guys, Just tried the following and it doesn't seem to work.. any explanations? %echo first line \\n second line Output is: first line \n second line Can anyone help? Thanks in advance... - Faxes delivered directly to

Re: Newline character doesn't work

2002-12-12 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 07:14:28PM +1100, BSD Freak wrote: Hi guys, Just tried the following and it doesn't seem to work.. any explanations? %echo first line \\n second line Output is: first line \n second line According to the man-page, echo(1) is working as advertised. What you want

Re: Newline character doesn't work

2002-12-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 07:14:28PM +1100, BSD Freak wrote: Just tried the following and it doesn't seem to work.. any explanations? %echo first line \\n second line Output is: first line \n second line echo is both a shell built-in and a standard command. The standard command doesn't