diff --git a/home.admin/config.scripts/network.monitor.sh b/home.admin/config.scripts/network.monitor.sh
index 2442dba01..5cdab1976 100755
--- a/home.admin/config.scripts/network.monitor.sh
+++ b/home.admin/config.scripts/network.monitor.sh
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ if [ "$1" = "peer-status" ]; then
     running=0
     peerNum=0
   fi
-  result="running=${running}\npeers=${peerNum}"
+  result=$"running=${running}\npeers=${peerNum}"
 
   # output to cache (normally gets written every 1min by background)
   echo "${result}" > /var/cache/raspiblitz/temp/network.monitor.peer-status.cache