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From: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-am: Make it easier to see which patch failed
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Stephan Beyer wrote:
> Hmm, IIRC if $FIRSTLINE contains \n or something like that, it will
> interpret this as newline in some shell/echo implementations.

Just in case someone wonders but doesn't dare ask:

bash as expected:
	$ echo 'foo\nbar'
	foo\nbar
	$ echo -e 'foo\nbar'
	foo
	bar

But dash:
	$ echo 'foo\nbar'
	foo
	bar
	$ echo -e 'foo\nbar'
	-e foo
	bar

(According to Debian Popularity Contest[1] "dash" is used in more than
10.000 Debian installations, although it doesn't say if it is used for
/bin/sh.)

 1. http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=dash

Regards,
  Stephan

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