Is it possible to create a line break in the field 0x010e Image Description?

Haha. I wouldn't do that to you. ;)

There are three ways:

1) In a Unix shell, you can put a line break in the command using "\" at the end of the line (not sure if you can do this in Windows though):

2) Create a file with the the exact description, including linebreaks, and write the value from the contents of the file:

3) Use $/ in a redirection expression to generate the newline:

The third technique, however, incurs a performance penalty since it will first read the file to extract tag values in case they are used in the expression (which they aren't).

- Phil

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

It was not a good idea to use tr, with sed it works: