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 ![](../img/motd-example.png)
 
-To produce a multi-line MOTD, you will need to double escape the newline such as
+To produce a multi-line MOTD, embed a newline character as `\n` in the string, such as
 
-    -e MOTD="Line one\\nLine two"
+    -e MOTD="Line one\nLine two"
 
 ### Difficulty