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Actually I wanted to simulate a line feed, if that is possible. &nbsp;I wanted to force the shell script to think the user had just entered a return without a command
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Actually I wanted to simulate a line feed, if that is possible.  I wanted to force the shell script to think the user had just entered a return without a command

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If I use an echo in a script, I get a blank line<br />
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What I want is to show a <br />
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<pre><code id="code-10-27414206-1">#
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like the use has hit the return screen inside of the shell,<br />
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How can I do this
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If I use an echo in a script, I get a blank line

What I want is to show a 

(CODE)
like the use has hit the return screen inside of the shell,

How can I do this

Shell scripting question (line feed)

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