Shell Programming and Scripting

I have these

Code:

str1=$(echo "This is string one with spaces \n This is also my sentence 1")

When I echo $str1, it displays the new line character properly.

Now I have another new variable say str2.

I want to concatenate in this way.. str1 + newline character + and then str2.

That's I want the output to be:

Code:

This is string one with spaces
This is also my sentence 1
Content of str2

How do I do it?

I tried

Code:

$str1 = "$str1 $(echo "\n") $str2"

and

Code:

$str1 = "$str1 \n $str2"

and

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$str1 = "$str1 $(echo $IFS) $str2"

None of those works

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If I just say echo $str1 "\n" $str2 at the cmd prompt, it works fine. It does not work when I try to store it in variable... it loses the new line character when stored in a variable.

Try this ,

Code:

str3=$(echo "$str1 \n $str2")
echo -e $str3

Code:

# echo -e $str1"\nContent of str2"
This is string one with spaces
This is also my sentence 1
Content of str2

Thanks both of you! It worked I am using something like this now...

Code:

s3=$(echo "$s1" "\n" "$s2")
echo $s3