display multiple line status

list P Yeung
Thu, 9 May 2013 17:02:21 -0700
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I am using xymon 4.3.11.

Using the example shown in "man xymon",

$XYMON $XYMSRV "status www,foo,com.http green `date` Web OK"

I can see the status displayed as a single line in the xymon server.

    Thu May 9 16:52:07 PDT 2013 Web OK

I need to display multiple lines to the xymon server, with the data in the
command line rather than a file.  I tried,

$XYMON $XYMSRV "status www,foo,com.http green `date` Web OK\n second
line"

But the status is displayed in one line instead of two in the xymon server

     Thu May 9 16:52:47 PDT 2013 Web OK\n second line

What escape character should I use to specify new line?

Thanks
P Yeung