Here is a simple script called command.sh:
#!/bin/bash
echo "I received: |$1|"
When I call it with a line feed, it doesn't output it:
$ ./command.sh foo\
> bar
I received: |foobar|
Why does the line feed get lost?
Here is a simple script called command.sh:
#!/bin/bash
echo "I received: |$1|"
When I call it with a line feed, it doesn't output it:
$ ./command.sh foo\
> bar
I received: |foobar|
Why does the line feed get lost?
Call your script as:
./command.sh 'foo
> bar'
By placing \
before newline you're merely breaking current command line and not really passing newline character to your script.
If you want to do it in single line then use:
./command.sh $'foo\nbar'