How to escape newline in quick command bar ? [3]

There was an unintended change in Version 6's quick commands. This most likely happened when we changed the quick commands command box into a multi-line enabled box.

This issue has been reported to our dev team. Thanks for the report.

Currently, you can transmit the new line character as the '\012' ascii code like so:

cat /etc/passwd | awk -F ':' '{ printf "%-15s %-15s\0124n", $1,$NF }'

or

cat /etc/passwd | awk -F ':' '{ printf "%-15s %-15s%c4n", $1,$NF, "\012" }'

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I look forward to a resolution with this. I use several "one-liners" on a daily basis and have run into a few other quirks with the text box change that weren't present in Xshell 5. Any update by chance?

Currently, only the \n character is not escaped and our devs are aware of this issue. As a temporary workaround, you can use "\\ \010n" for sending \n. \010 translates to backspace.

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