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From: klaus DOT berndl AT sdm DOT de
To: fileysurgery AT techie DOT com, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: AW: Scripting with Bash
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:58:06 +0100
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>Is there a way to include the \n's in a statement like "echo
>"Blah\n"" and have standard out display "Blah and a newline"
>instead of Blah\n?

echo -e "Blah\nnext line\nanother next line"

But in genreral: man echo is your friend :-)

Klaus

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