On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:58:46PM -0500, Ezra Nugroho wrote:
> it's hard to find.
> 
> I want to be able to do:
> 
> echo "first line"\newline"second line"
> 
> in a bash script instead of 
> 
> echo "first line"
> echo "second line"
> 

$ echo -e  "first line\nsecond line"
first line
second line

$ printf  "first line\nsecond line\n"
first line
second line

-- 
Hal Burgiss
 


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