How do I add a line break for read command?

Question

 read -p \"Please Enter a Message:\" message

How can I add a line break after Message:?

Answer 1

Just to improve the answers of Huang F. Lei and of T.J. Crowder which I like (and added +1) .. You can use one of the following syntaxes too, which basically are the same, it depends on your taste (I prefer the first one):

read -p "$(echo -e 'Please Enter a Message: \n\b')" message
read -p "`echo -e 'Please Enter a Message: \n\b'`" message

which both will produce the following output:

Please Enter a Message: 
_

where _ is the cursor.
In case you need a newline in any part of the string but the end, you can use \n, for example

read -p "`echo -e '\nPlease Enter\na Message: '`" message

will produce

.
Please Enter
a Message: _

where . is a blank first new line and _ is the cursor.

Only to add a final trailing newline you have to use \n\b as in my first example