David Y.
—How can I print a string with multiple lines in Bash?
echo "Hello\nworld"
produces:
Hello\nworld
On some systems, echo
includes a -e
parameter, which will enable escape sequences like \n
. So this:
echo -e "Hello\nworld"
should produce:
Hello world
However, not all versions of echo
support this flag. A more reliable and portable alternative is to use printf
instead of echo
:
printf "Hello\nworld"
will produce:
Hello world
You can read more about printf
by typing man printf
into your terminal.
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