Newline in xmessage?

scottjwoodford · 06-09-2005, 09:58 AM

Hello all,

Trying to figure out how to insert a newline character in an xmessage window. I realize there's no built-in way to do it, but does anyone have any ideas? I can get it to work if I use "-file" and specify a file that has wrapped text, but I can't use that because I need to pass variables from the command line. Thanks in advance,

Scott

keefaz · 06-09-2005, 11:59 AM

Try :

Code:

echo -e "Hello,\nThis is\na multiple lines\nmessage" | xmessage -file -

scottjwoodford · 06-09-2005, 04:17 PM

Thanks Keefaz. That works great!