print command

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Is there a way in the Korn Shell to print like below:

print "the red fox jumped \
<6 spaces> over the brown house.\n" > test.out

And have the output look like the folowing:

the red fox jumped over the brown house.

Our shell scripting standards state that no line can be over 78 characters
and a continued line must be indented 6 spaces. So I have to continue the line and indent on print statements. But I don't want the line to look like below:

the red fox jumped<6 spaces> over the brown house.

the <6 spaces> are actually 6 spaces not the literal. The Preview Post is taking away the spaces from my text.

thanks.

2

Try:

print "The quick brown fox" \
       "jumped over the lazy dog"\
       "while Mary had a little lamb"\
       "whose fleece was white as snow."
3

That did it.

Thanks!!!