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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: Bug: git-rebase goofs up \n in commit messages
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 11:10:36 +1000
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Cc: Szekeres Istvan <szekeres@iii.hu>, git@vger.kernel.org
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 08:40:28PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> Hmm. It even happens with this:
> 
> bash$ export test=$(echo foo \\n bar)
> bash$ dash
> dash$ echo $test
> foo
>  bar
> 
> I'm not sure what the best workaround is.  I am cc'ing Herbert Xu to see
> if he has any helpful comments.

If you need to echo something that may have escapes in it, the portable
way to do it is

printf '%s\n' "$test"

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