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 is printf(1).
$ printf "first line\nsecond line\n"
first line
second line
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