Newline for gxmessage ?

[scientist]

Is there a way for gxmessage to use newlines in displaying messages ?

ex.

First line

second line

[MochiMoppel]

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MSG="First line
second line"

gxmessage "$MSG"

or

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gxmessage $'First line\nSecond line'

[scientist]

Thanks Mochi.

[miriam]

I just had a similar problem and found this works:

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echo -e "first line \nsecond line" | gxmessage -file -

It works because when gxmessage is sent text from a file it prints the newlines properly. Telling it to use "-" as the source file makes it get the text from the standard input. And echo -e tells echo to use escape commands, such as \n for newline, \t for tab, etc.

[greengeek]

Unless I am misunderstanding the question you can just type exactly what you want including using the enter key to step to a new line.

eg:

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#! /bin/bash

gxmessage "  This is the line 1 info

   This is the third line - leaving the second line blank.
Here is the fourth line - notice it is not spaced out from the margin"

Oh - i just realised how old the thread is.

[miriam]

Huh... I'd been testing from the commandline. I never even tried that solution in a script. Seems really obvious, now. Amazing how easy it is to overlook the obvious.

Thanks GreenGeek.

(I'm really glad old threads remain active here.)