Re: New line with xmessage?

[David selby <debian@pusspaws.net>]

David selby wrote:

> Having quite a bit of success with bash, got first script to work, 
> auto archives a backup every day and delete the oldest backup files if 
> partition is >95% full ...
>
> Want to try something more adventurous however am stuck on something 
> soooo simple, how do I generate a new line in xmessage
>
> I got round it with echo
> echo -e "hello \n everybody"
>
> However
> xmessage "hello \n everybody", takes it literally, all on one line
>
> I checked man xmessage but there is no corresponding "-e" enabler
>
> Any ideas ?
> Dave
Many thanks everyone, xmessage -file xxx seems to work, It seems to take 
the formatting from the file and not have a problem, strange it can't 
take it directly from "" however will remember this workaround.

Dave