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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to embed a newline in pdksh string ? Date: 10 Dec 1996 05:35:00 -0000 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 22 Sender: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <58isq4$ag2@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <stanbE21wK5.3zH@netcom.com> Reply-To: brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 In article <stanbE21wK5.3zH@netcom.com>, stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) writes: : I am trying to port some user environement scripts to FreeBSD. I have : most of this doen, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to embed a : newloin in a string in pdksh. : : Heres what Im trying to do: Normally I do this. : : echo "\nWarining You Are Superuser\n" : : How do I do this in pdksh ? At a guess, pdksh is using the BSD style echo - no escape processing. The -e switch may change this - try echo -e "\nWarning You Are Superuser\n" -- Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... .