Bash: Howto force line feed AND carriage return in script?

[Lampi]

I do have a bash script with several echo commands called like this:

echo -n "Hello World"

How do I format the echo line to force line feed AND carriage return after each command?

At the moment the echo output looks like this:


Hello World
Hello World
Hello World
Hello World
not what I had in mind...

Can I somehow combine /n oder /r to force line feed and carriage return in scripts or can I use ANSI / escape sequences?

[howlingmadhowie]

why are you passing the -n flag to echo?

[ghostdog74]

use printf

[cdenley]

echo -e "line1\r\nline2"


You shouldn't need a carriage return if the script is run on Linux. Several echo lines wouldn't result in each line being further to the right. If you use the "-n" option, they will all be on one line, though.