Echo newline in Bash prints literal \n Echo newline in Bash prints literal \n bash bash

Echo newline in Bash prints literal \n


bash echo newline

You could use printf instead:

printf "hello\nworld\n"

printf has more consistent behavior than echo. The behavior of echo varies greatly between different versions.

bash echo newline

Make sure you are in Bash. All these four ways work for me:

echo -e "Hello\nworld"echo -e 'Hello\nworld'echo Hello$'\n'worldecho Hello ; echo world

bash echo newline 

echo $'hello\nworld'

prints

helloworld

$'' strings use ANSI C Quoting:

Words of the form $'string' are treated specially. The word expands to string, with backslash-escaped characters replaced as specified by the ANSI C standard.

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