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Make A Newline On A Command Prompt

Sometimes doing `\n` directly is a pain.

Another way to do it is to set a variable:

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NEWLINE=$'\n'

Then use it with something like:

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PROMPT_LINE="$(printf '─%.0s' {1..$(tput cols)})${NEWLINE}"