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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Ctrl-V + Ctrl-J for newline character does not work inside vi editor Post 302744529 by Corona688 on Friday 14th of December 2012 11:46:00 AM
Old 12-14-2012
You are overthinking this. If you want a literal newline to be inside your string, hit your ENTER key.

That is what a literal newline character in the middle of your string really looks like:

Code:
echo "select * from tab;
commit;"

...because that's what newline does. You won't be able to 'trick' it into being on a single line.
 

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SURF(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   SURF(1)

NAME

       surf - simple webkit-based browser

SYNOPSIS

       surf [-e xid] [-i] [-p] [-s] [-v] [-x] URI

DESCRIPTION

       surf  is  a simple Web browser based on WebKit/GTK+. It is able to display websites and follow links. It supports the XEmbed protocol which
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       -i     Disable Images

       -p     Disable Plugins

       -s     Disable Javascript

       -v     Prints version information to standard output, then exits.

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       Ctrl-l Walks forward the history.

       Ctrl-k Scrolls page upwards.

       Ctrl-j Scrolls page downwards.

       Ctrl-Shift-k
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       Ctrl-Shift-j
	      Zooms page out

       Ctrl-Shift-i
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       Ctrl-/ Opens the search-bar.

       Ctrl-n Go to next search result.

       Ctrl-Shift-n
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       Ctrl-g Opens the URL-bar.

       Ctrl-p Loads URI from primary selection.

       Ctrl-Shift-p
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