[scarolan@server:~]$ echo $myvar Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, co sectetur adipisci g elit. lots of letter !
Weird huh?
Ok, I'm a bonehead; I had this in my bash history:
IFS='\n'
That seems to have been the cause of the missing n's. Now the next question would be, how can I include the \n characters in my variable string, without fudging with $IFS?