New line with xmessage?

[David selby]

Having quite a bit of success with bash, got first script to work, auto
archives a backup every day and delete the oldest backup files if
partition is >95% full ...

Want to try something more adventurous however am stuck on something
soooo simple, how do I generate a new line in xmessage

I got round it with echo
echo -e "hello \n everybody"

However
xmessage "hello \n everybody", takes it literally, all on one line

I checked man xmessage but there is no corresponding "-e" enabler

Any ideas ?
Dave

[Rus Foster]

Post by David selby
Having quite a bit of success with bash, got first script to work, auto
archives a backup every day and delete the oldest backup files if
partition is >95% full ...

try xmessage -file -

this is
a
test

^D

HTH

Rgds

rus
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[Florian Ernst]

Hello David!

Post by David selby
Want to try something more adventurous however am stuck on something
soooo simple, how do I generate a new line in xmessage

Hm, a new line? This sort of works:

xmessage "Newline<RET>

You will get to the alternate prompt, and then continue

here!"

I'm not sure if this is what you really want, but it will give you a new
line. Hm, I never worked with xmessage before...

HTH,
Flo

[Karsten M. Self]

Post by Florian Ernst
Hello David!

Post by David selby
Want to try something more adventurous however am stuck on something
soooo simple, how do I generate a new line in xmessage

xmessage "Newline<RET>
You will get to the alternate prompt, and then continue
here!"

...or fold, or indent:

echo "some silly message" | fold -w 10 | xmessage -file -

Peace.

[David selby]

Post by David selby
Having quite a bit of success with bash, got first script to work,
auto archives a backup every day and delete the oldest backup files if
partition is >95% full ...
Want to try something more adventurous however am stuck on something
soooo simple, how do I generate a new line in xmessage
I got round it with echo
echo -e "hello \n everybody"
However
xmessage "hello \n everybody", takes it literally, all on one line
I checked man xmessage but there is no corresponding "-e" enabler
Any ideas ?
Dave

Many thanks everyone, xmessage -file xxx seems to work, It seems to take
the formatting from the file and not have a problem, strange it can't
take it directly from "" however will remember this workaround.

Dave

[Vineet Kumar]

Post by David selby
Many thanks everyone, xmessage -file xxx seems to work, It seems to take
the formatting from the file and not have a problem, strange it can't
take it directly from "" however will remember this workaround.

It works with quotes if you do as Florian suggested:

xmessage "foo
bar
baz"

good times,
Vineet

[David selby]

Post by Vineet Kumar

Post by David selby
Many thanks everyone, xmessage -file xxx seems to work, It seems to take
the formatting from the file and not have a problem, strange it can't
take it directly from "" however will remember this workaround.

xmessage "foo
bar
baz"
good times,
Vineet

Yep, sure does ... I didn't originaly think this would be of use till I
realised I could literaly split the line up in vi, make the script
executable and it came out as I wanted ...I thought it only worked on
the command line.

This is a good way to go it.

Dave
(many thanks Florian)