From: Arne Marschall (arne@mars.rmt.sub.org)
Date: 05/07/93 

From: arne@mars.rmt.sub.org (Arne Marschall)
Subject: Re: Linux "echo" too primitive
Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 21:59:03 GMT

: In article <1993Apr28.182855.7479@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> barrett@pamsrc.enet.dec.com writes:

: >For example:
: >
: >
: > echo "\nhello\n"
: >
: >
: >does not turn the "\n" into newline characters.

It's there. Use:

echo -e "\nhello\n"