problem with printf in a shell script

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 6:09 PM +0200 6/19/07, Olivier Regnier wrote:
>Olivier Regnier a écrit :
>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>I want to insert text in my file, rc.conf : update_motd="NO"
>>I tried printf in my shell script with this command :
>>printf "update_motd="\"NO"\"\" >> /etc/rc.conf
>>then, that works well in console but not with my shell script
>>I would like to insert a \n at the end :)
>>
>>Can you help me please ?
>>
>
>Sorry :), i founded the solution :
>printf 'update_motd="NO"'


If you want a newline character at the end of that, then wouldn't
you need:

    printf 'update_motd="NO"\n'

Literally the two characters '\n' at the end of the string you're
printing?  By default, printf does not include a newline.

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