turning off verbose mode in bash scripting

[keto]

Hello Everyone,
I'm having a problem with using the escape character effectively. I'm running RedHat 6.2 and I am trying to write scripts using the bash shell.
Whenever I type \n to start a new line, it actually prints it out in the script, the same goes for \c. I have been told that I might be in verbose mode and that the command: unset -v should fix it. But that doesn't seem to work.
Can any body help me please.
Thanks
Keto

 

[qomputek]

Try putting a $ in front of the single quoted expresion.

E.G: echo $'Hello\nWorld'

This should print
Hello
World

From the bash man pages:

Words of the form $'string' are treated specially. The word expands to string, with backslash-escaped characters replaced as specifed by the ANSI C standard. Backslash escapes equences, if present, are decoded as follows:
\a alert (bell)
\b backspace
\e an escape character
\f form feed
\n new line
\r carriage return
\t horizontal tab
\v vertical tab
\\ backslash
\' single quote
\nnn the character whose ASCII code is the octal value nnn( one to three digits)

 

[keto]

Just as a follow-up. The problem was an argument for the echo program ie. the -e argument which evaluates escaped characters on red-hat systems and is unset by default.

Hence I fixed this by: alias echo = "echo -e"

Thanks anyway
Keto