Mercurial: multiline commit message on the command line?

Question

How can I specify a multiline commit message for mercurial on the command line?

hg commit -m \"* add foo\\n* fix bar\"

does not work. The log

Answer 1

In bash (since version 2.0):

hg commit -m $'foo\nbar'

(I.e. put a dollar sign before an opening single quote to make it parse escape sequences (like \n) within the string — note that it doesn't work with double quotes.)