On 20:22 03 Sep 2003, Lorenzo Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Try something like
| printf "first line\nsecond line\n"
|
| According to the manual for the echo command,
| echo -e first line\nsecond line
|
| should do the same thing, but it doesn't work on my system for some strange reason.
The output of that command shows
|
| first linensecond line
That's because you forgot to quote it. In the shell, \ is a single char quote,
so it is as if you'd written:
echo -e first line'n'second line
which quotes the "n" character (unnecessary but permitted).
Try this:
echo -e 'first line\nsecond line'
so that the \ is not treated as a shell punctuation character.
Myself, if I want it one one line I tend just to:
echo foo; echo bar
Cheers,
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