I recently noticed that the examples in the softraid man page http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=softraid
contain many lines such as echo "d a\na\n\n\n\nRAID\nw\nq\n" | disklabel -E wd1 Of course, not every version of echo interprets "\n" as a newline. In fact, /bin/echo treats "\n" as a literal backslash followed by a literal n. The version of echo that is built into csh also interprets it as a literal backslash followed by a literal n. But the softraid man page certainly intends it to be interpreted as a newline. So, is the man page in error? Or are the examples in man pages only intended for use in the default shell? (Note that ksh is the default shell, and ksh has a built-in echo command that interprets "\n" as a newline.)

