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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting \n option in script Post 302355400 by venkidhadha on Tuesday 22nd of September 2009 02:11:26 PM
Old 09-22-2009
\n option in script
I have a series of around 20 files as my program output. The final line of my script gets the no of files and the file list for the present day. The no of files shoudl be printed first and the files for today must be printed in the next line. Ialso understood that echo -e must be used for with \n. However I get multiple errors for this.

Can you get me an exact syntax for the line which has \n? Please find below my script.

set -x
cd alt/mystudies
a=`ls -ltr | wc -l`
echo $a
Today=`date '+%Y%m%d'`
echo $Today
b=`ls P* | grep $Today`
echo $b
echo -e The no of files for United dated `date` is $a and the files are below \n $b | mailx -s " United files " venkidhadha@yahoo.com
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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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