Inserting a newline character in a echo

[Rui Vilao]

Greetings,

I am writing a shell script where I generate a echo of a string.
I want to insert newlines in order to
spread this string over a few lines.

Another question: What is the purpose of using the -p switch in a script:

#!/usr/bin/sh -p

Any help/suggestion is highly appreciated.

TIA.

Kind Regards,

Rui.

[Rainer von Bongartz]

# echo "\n\n\n This is a Test \n\n\n"



This is a Test



#

Regards
Rainer

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

With -P, preserve the physical path when treating symbolic links. cd -P .. changes the working directory to the actual parent directory of the current directory.


Paula

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Rui:

# echo "Double\n\nspace\n\nthis\n\noutput\n"

Thus, the '\n' constitutes a newline character.

From the man pages for 'sh-posix':

"Disable processing of the $HOME/.profile file and uses the file /etc/suid_profile instead of the ENV file. This mode is on whenever the effective user ID (group ID) is not equal to the real user ID (group ID). Turning this off causes the effective user ID and group ID to be set to the real user ID and group ID."

Regards!

...JRF...

[Marco Santerre]

an echo "\n" should do the trick for your newline

[T G Manikandan]

echo "\nManikandan \n\n\n"
echo "\n\n"

-p option --bypass the local .profile file.
for the -p option check the man pages of sh-posix.


Thanks