awk in busybox 1.00-rc2 does not accept "\n" for example # echo 1 2 | awk '{print $1"\n"$2}' 1 2 # echo 1 2 | busybox awk '{print $1"\n"$2}' awk: cmd. line:1: Unexpected end of string I confirm this problem only exist in busybox 1.00-rc2, but not in older version