Oh yeah. "linuxuser" is linux. Silly me. :P

I just tried a bunch of shells (sh, csh, bash, zsh), and of these the backslash at the end of a line only adds a newline in csh. But the good news is that I played around a bit in bash and it is even easier -- you can insert an actual newline in a quoted string:

The above bash script works for me, but of course you need to use the -b option to see the newline when you extract the value.

- Phil