On Friday 03 July 2009, Richard Neill wrote: > > X=$'a\nb c' > > This is still a missing feature: how to embed newlines in double-quoted > bash string assignment: > > For example, if I want to write: > > EMAIL_BODY="Dear $NAME,$'\n\n'Here are the log-files for > $(date)$'\n\n'Regards,$'\n\n'$SENDER" > > then this doesn't work. There are ways around it, such as: > - building up the string in pieces or > - EMAIL_BODY=$(echo -e "$EMAIL_BODY") > > but it's really ugly to do.
Maybe I'm missing something, but what's wrong with EMAIL_BODY="Dear $NAME, Here are the log files etc." ? -- D.
