HI all,

If I have 3 lines in variables such as follows
x=Unix Forum
y=Interactive Forum
z=Unix Forum is Best Forum

Now I want to write these 3 lines in a file
so that that file will look like

Unix Forum
Interactive Forum
Unix Forum is Best Forum

How can I do it ?
--------------------------------------
Presently I am writing to it as follows
$x $y $z > a.out

But it shows all 3 lines in a single line...

Thanks.....In Advance

echo "$x\n$y\n$z" > a.out

NO ...man its not working at all

$ x="mah"
$ y="abc"
$ z="123"
$ echo "$x\n$y\n$z" > a.out
$ more a.out
mah
abc
123


I guess you are trying to do something else other than what you have mentioned above... can you post your full script here and the output

Mahendramahendr, he may be right for the man page on echo says about option [e] as below :
-e enable interpretation of the backslash-escaped characters

Dhananjay try this
echo -e "$x\n$y\n$z" >a.out
And tell us if this works