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Old 06-21-2006
How to add a new line into a file

I want to insert a new line character inside the file between these two record entries "san" and "man". How can this be done

echo " san " >"C:/\Test/\Output/\Neme"
echo " man " >>"C:/\Test/\Output/\Name"


Name file should look like this
san
man

Please help
# 2  
Old 06-21-2006
The echo command should by default be putting a newline char at the end of each line. But if it isn't, you can specify the newline char, like this:
Code:
echo " san \n"

# 3  
Old 06-21-2006
echo " san \n"
gives the following output

san \n

but when we use echo -e " san \n" it gives the desired output on the screen but while inserting into the file it doesn't work.

Please help me how to make it work

Regards
Sandeep

Last edited by sandeep_hi; 06-22-2006 at 03:33 AM..
# 4  
Old 06-22-2006
Quote:
echo " san \n"
gives the following output

san \n
strange,
it should only be

Code:
san
<newline>
<prompt>

# 5  
Old 06-22-2006
Actually i am using cygwin and the problem was in the editor(notepad) which was not displaying it correctly. When i opened the same file in wordpad the display was as desired.

Thanks
Sandeep
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