I'm new to all awk and cygwin so stuck on something probably very simple. Awk will print multiple lines, but when I output to a file everything is stuck on just the 1 line. How do I make it output to more than 1 line? How would I do something simple like this... echo "hello world" (Somehow put a new line here) "this is a test" > test.txt To output hello world this is a test

First, using printf within your awk script allows controlling the output format. But your question doesn't seem to have anything to do with awk. This echo works: echo "hello world""\n""this is a test" > test.txt # this is probably cleaner: echo "hello world\nthis is a test" > test.txt

It's not working. echo "hello world""\n""this is a test" > test.txt will produce a txt file containing; hello world\nthis is a test and echo "hello world\nthis is a test" > test.txt will do helloworld\nthis is a test Everything prints fine, it looks great but outputting it to a txt file results in 1 line!! :(

===> script: 1.sh $ cat 1.sh #!/bin/ksh echo "hello world""\n""this is a test" > test.txt ===> run 1.sh $ ./1.sh ===> test.txt file: hello world this is a test ---> if you run it directly on the command line: $ echo "hello world""\n""this is a test" > test.txt ---> test.txt file: hello world\nthis is a test Luke Chi

Your platform is probably like linux, where echo requires the -e option to enable interpretation of backslashed characters. echo -e "hello world\nthis is a test" > test.txt Another way to easily get multi-line text to disk is using cat, which would be far superior if you have a lot of lines, and particularly for special alignment such as columnarized data because all of the lines appear one below the other. And of course, > will create or replace existing test.txt while >> would create or append to existing test.txt. cat > test.txt << ! aaa aaa aaa bbb bbb bbb ccc ccc ccc ddd ddd ddd eee eee eee fff fff fff !