The problem is that you are using a poor shell. Fix the problem by switching to a better shell.
Code:
$ ksh
$ echo '\n\t'"No disk capacity more than 80%" '\n'
No disk capacity more than 80%
$ csh
%echo '\n\t'"No disk capacity more than 80%" '\n'
\n\tNo disk capacity more than 80% \n
%
See? It works when I use ksh and it fails with csh.
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Hi.
I would discourage the use of (t)csh for scripting, but if you must use it, you could try using the non-built-in echo:
Code:
#!/bin/csh
# @(#) s1 Demonstrate stand-alone echo.
echo
echo $version | fmt
echo
echo -e '\n\t' "No disk capacity more than 80%" '\n'
/bin/echo -e '\n\t' "No disk capacity more than 80%" '\n'
exit 0
which produces:
Code:
% ./s1
tcsh 6.13.00 (Astron) 2004-05-19 (i386-intel-linux) options
8b,nls,bye,al,ng,rh,nd,color,filec
-e \n\t No disk capacity more than 80% \n
No disk capacity more than 80%
and also:
Quote:
echo [-n] word ...
Writes each word to the shell's standard output, separated by
spaces and terminated with a newline. The echo_style shell
variable may be set to emulate (or not) the flags and escape
sequences of the BSD and/or System V versions of echo; see
echo(1).
