Cannot seem to insert a carriage return line feed (CRLF) into a text area field about force

[cwarden]

You can include line breaks in command, e.g.

$ force record update task field:"Line 1 text to insert
Line 2 more text"
$

or

$ force record update task field:"$(echo -en 'Line 1 text to insert\nLine 2 more text')"

[haydnlj]

Thanks for the quick reply.. although cannot seem to get it to work - imagine I will kick myself when I find what I am doing wrong!

1. First option sends/executes the command on line break even if in a batch file (cmd.exe windows).
   I see references online to using a carat to escape the line break, but that just seems to cat the lines?

2. Second option using cmd.exe on windows I entered this and the got "Record Updated";
   force record update task description:"$(echo -en 'Uploaded by: Sales Rep\nFor: Customer')"

The field in SFDC literally shows the "$(echo" as text;
"$(echo -en 'Uploaded by: Sales Rep\nFor: Customer')"

[cwarden]

On Windows, try ^ to escape the newline.

[haydnlj]

No dice!
Thanks though - have given me some alternate ideas to chase down. If I can make it work I will comment back here.

[MrDOS]

Try hitting “Enter” again at the “More? ” prompt:

C:\>force record update task field:"Line 1 text to insert^
More? 
More? Line 2 more text"

The ^ character is just an escape that lets you enter special characters literally. It does not insert a newline immediately; it just lets you enter one. You can see this behaviour in action with echo:

C:\>echo one^
More? two
onetwo

C:\>echo one^
More?
More? two
one
two