Re: FC3T3

["W. Guy Thomas" <mrguytx austin rr com>]

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 hajo net> 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 optonline net>
> 

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.