[Xymon] Insert a newline into your custom xymon message?

[Adam Goryachev]

On 24/9/20 23:16, Gabby Gibbons via Xymon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering if there's any way to insert a newline in a message. I 
> know it's possible to do by actually putting it on another line in the 
> script but I don't like the way that it looks because it messes up all 
> the indenting in the script, so that's why I was wondering if there's 
> a newline character that xymon supports, \n doesn't work it just 
> append a literal "\n".
>
> An example of the way I can get it to work, but looks bad:
> MSG="${MSG}
> appended text"
>
> How I would like it work:
> MSG="${MSG}\nappended text"

What about:

MSG=`echo -en "${MSG}\nappended text\n"`

Regards,
Adam

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