On 03-Apr-07 14:52:07, Chris G wrote:
No, no, no, no, no - oh dear, I've confused myself haven't I. The echo man page is quite correct and (as others have noted) all that's happening above is that echo is turning the \n into a newline.
However I now think I can get what I want and show it:-
chrisg$ fred="abcde"$'\n'"ghijk" chrisg$ echo $fred abcde ghijk chrisg$The sequence $'\n' in bash is a string containing a single newline character (most of the other familiar \ specials work too).
Hmmm ... Trying the above:
fred="abcde"$'\n'"ghijk" echo $fred abcde ghijk
echo "$fred" abcde ghijk
I wonder why ... ?? At least, the $'\n' is a smooth way to get the newline into $fred!
Ted.
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