newlines in shell

[king vash]

I have a shell script which takes a string (with newlines in it) as a parameter. It then sends that to another program.

called like "sh printer.sh "Hello \n World"
when I use it later in the program the \n has been converted to a newline character. I need it to not echo with a newline character but with a "\n"

"echo $1" prints
"Hello
World"

were I want "Hello \n Wold".

any ideas?

[zarthon]

#!/bin/bash
echo $1

Bash Works the way you want it to

#!/bin/sh
echo $1

Sh does not.

Someone else may know exactly why this is.

[king vash]

Thank you, that solved the problem!

[Gen2ly]

Instead of switching shells, consider using echo with single quotes to print the output literally:


echo 'bin \n my bash'

[epicoder]

This might work:


echo "Hello \\n World"