On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 19:35 -0400, Graham Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 19:14, W. Guy Thomas wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 09:31 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:11:59 +0800 (HKT), HaJo Schatz <hajo@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > Pls add an 'echo "--"' to your script so that our mailers can detect your > > > > sig. > > > > > > <pedant> > > > Actually, that should be "-- ". > > > > > > The .sig delimiter is two dashes, a space and a newline. > > > </pedant> > > > > > > Dave... > > > > > > > then I need to insert a carriage return below the "-- " > > what would that be? > > Well in Unix systems the newline character is a line feed not a carriage > return. But echo (without a -n switch) will add it to the output. So > just use 'echo "-- "' after stripping the single quotes. > -- > Graham Campbell <gc1111@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > I'm learning the difference now after reading up on it, but I can't find how to just insert a blank new line..i.e. look at my sig below, it's all on one line: -- =Guy 19:24:11 up 21:48, 2 users, load average: 0.74, 0.68, 0.56 but I would like it to look like -- =Guy 19:24:11 up 21:48, 2 users, load average: 0.74, 0.68, 0.56 I have tried \r and \n but perhaps I am missing some kind of qualifier like $ before it or something. I apologize for my lack of scripting in unix knowledge but promise to keep researching and become better. Thanks.
