[wellylug] Command Line Carriage Return Question

Jonathan Harker jharker at massey.ac.nz
Wed May 5 09:15:35 NZST 2004


Tim Nicholas wrote:
> If you are using bash for your shell then you can quite possibly just 
> use single quotes and then hit enter for new lines.
> 
> /jabber.pl jabbername at jabber.servre 'Testing
> Does this work
> I hope so.'
> 
> Are you sure it wont accept the string from standard in? If so then
> echo -e "Testing \n Does this work \n I hope so" | /jabber.pl 
> jabbername at jabber.server or similar.

snap!  :-)




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