[rt-users] RT 3.6.1 CLI--how to pass in a newline

Is there any way to pass in a new line character via the CLI? I'm trying to put one in the text field with 'create' and straight in with a 'comment'. An actual return confuses the shell, and everything else I tried is translated literally. \n and br / both just showed up that way in the

Re: [rt-users] RT 3.6.1 CLI--how to pass in a newline

Hi Jim, We recently had an application that required us to import data containing newlines into our RT instance via the command-line tool. We found that the text field of the 'create' option does not accept newlines, however adding an actual newline character to a 'comment' does: [EMAIL

Re: [rt-users] RT 3.6.1 CLI--how to pass in a newline

Is there any way to pass in a new line character via the CLI? [...] An actual return confuses the shell, This is a shell problem, then, and should be addressed as such. Every shell I've used has a way to get a newline into a command argument - though it's not always easy to find. Which