how to put a new line/carriage return in file created by a bash script

Question

In my bash script I have:

echo -e '#!/bin/sh /n GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/realopti/domains/$name git checkout -f' >> ~/domains/$name.git/hooks/post-receive

This generates:

#!/bin/sh /n GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/realopti/domains/john git checkout -f

in my post-receive file.

I'd like the file to look like:

#!/bin/sh
GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/realopti/domains/john git checkout -f

How can I make this happen.

Thank you,

Bill

Answer 1

That should be \n, not /n. You may also want to remove the space after it, but it doesn't matter.