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Old 03-22-2017
In shell scripting found "\n-" and don't know what is it for
Working on UNIX shell scripting I found in env file the following
Code:
 export H1="\n- "
 echo "${H1} Waiting for dependencies of ${MONITOR_KEY} to be satisfied ..."  >> ${LOG}

What is in shell
Code:
 \n-

The new line character?

Thanks for contribution
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Old 03-22-2017
Some versions of echo on certain shells on certain systems will print a newline followed bij a minus sign and a space (in other versions it will print the 4 characters \n- )
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\n- is a new-line followed by dash space when used in echo/printf (assuming echo supports \n).
You can always test the hypothesis by creating a "test harness" to mimic....
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