how to "escape" a column name

This seems to work on hobbit 4.20.

~/bin/bb my_host "status 'uname -n'.MyColumn<br/>Name green `date` `cat
mytest`"

joe a

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Joe Acquisto <user-8a324efe5034@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Perhaps someone knows offhand, to save me a lot of hacking.

Is it possible to "escape" a status message, so as to make a status column
heading appear on two lines?

such as ~/bin/bb my_host "status 'uname -n'.MyColumn\nName green `date`
`cat mytest`"

Or like that.