I've pushed this patch in response to a user request to make it easier to write newlines and other characters in guestfish: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=617e7f6bafa7de230... This lets you write: and have it do what you'd expect. (With current guestfish, this writes backslash followed by 'n' and no newline into the file) In theory this is a change to the behaviour of guestfish, _if_ you were relying on the above to literally write backslash-<char>. We never documented it either way. Note that the change only applies to double-quoted strings. Single quoted strings and unquoted strings are unaffected. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw