>Is there a way to include the \n's in a statement like "echo >"Blah\n"" and have standard out display "Blah and a newline" >instead of Blah\n? echo -e "Blah\nnext line\nanother next line" But in genreral: man echo is your friend :-) Klaus -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple