<div dir="ltr">I don't think the xymon command will do any escaping. Instead you need to pass the newline literally. Why is it you can't use a file? Knowing why you're constrained would make it easier to propose a suitable solution.<div>
<br></div><div>You could do something like this:</div><div><br></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">$XYMON $XYMSRV "status www,foo,com.http green `date` Web OK</span></div><div style>
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">second line"</span></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">Or to make it more readable:</font></div>
<div style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">NL='</font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">' # newline</font></div><div style><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">$XYMON $XYMSRV "status www,foo,com.http green `date` Web OK${NL}</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">second line"</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Or maybe this would work for you:</span></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">printf </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">"status www,foo,com.http green `date` Web OK\n</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">second line\n" | </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">$XYMON $XYMSRV "@"</span></div>
<div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Or of you don't like to use printf:</span></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">{ echo </font><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">"status www,foo,com.http green `date` Web OK"; echo "</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">second line\n"; } | </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">$XYMON $XYMSRV "@"</span></div>
<div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Cheers</span><br></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Jeremy</span></div>
<div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 May 2013 10:02, P Yeung <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:p3yeung@gmail.com" target="_blank">p3yeung@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I am using xymon 4.3.11.<div><br></div><div>Using the example shown in "man xymon",</div><div>
<br></div><div> > $XYMON $XYMSRV "status www,foo,com.http green `date` Web OK"</div><div>
<br></div><div>I can see the status displayed as a single line in the xymon server.</div><div><br></div><div> Thu May 9 16:52:07 PDT 2013 Web OK<br></div><div><br></div><div>I need to display multiple lines to the xymon server, with the data in the command line rather than a file. I tried, </div>
<div><br></div><div> > $XYMON $XYMSRV "status www,foo,com.http green `date` Web OK\n second line"</div><div><br></div><div>But the status is displayed in one line instead of two in the xymon server</div><div>
<br></div><div> Thu May 9 16:52:47 PDT 2013 Web OK\n second line</div><div><br></div><div>What escape character should I use to specify new line?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
P Yeung</div></font></span></div>
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