How to show read prompt with a new line

问题

I'm using read builtin to read a variable, but I'd like to let the input appears on the next line, that is, the prompt output a new line, but neither of the two works:

$ read -p "Please input:\n" name
Please input:\n

$ read -p 'Please input:\n" name
Please input:\n

As you see new line escape sequence is not interpreted even in the double quote case. So is there anyway to do that?

回答1:

You can separate the prompt from the actual read :

echo "Please input:"
read name

You can put both on a single line :

echo "Please input:" ; read name

You can also use a different form of quoting :

read -p $'Please input\n' name

This is barely shorter, and many would probably find it a bit less readable, but that is a matter of taste.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43462279/how-to-show-read-prompt-with-a-new-line