The pbpaste command deletes newlines in the clipboard contents before writing to the target file

Question

I'm writing the contents of the clipboard to a txt using pbpaste, for some reason it deletes all newlines from the text in the clipboard.

This is the command I'm using:

echo `pbpaste` > /Users/me/file.txt

It works as expected except for the fact that none of the newlines from the clipboard contents are to be found in the target file.

Answer 1

Is there anyway to keep the newlines?

Yes, by eliminating echo:

pbpaste > /Users/me/file.txt