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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t9001: avoid not portable '\n' with sed
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 21:16:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqcw1o5o.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140604184604.GC14457@serenity.lan> (John Keeping's message of "Wed, 4 Jun 2014 19:46:04 +0100")

John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> writes:

> So the portable way to do it is:
>
> 	sed "s/^From:/$header: extra@address.com\
> From:/" cover-to-edit.patch >"$cover" &&

That wouldn't work as \<newline> is removed in double quotes.  You
either need to double the backslash or put it in single quotes.

Andreas.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-04 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-04  8:20 [PATCH] t9001: avoid not portable '\n' with sed Torsten Bögershausen
2014-06-04 17:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-04 18:13   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-04 18:42     ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-06-04 18:46   ` John Keeping
2014-06-04 19:01     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-04 19:16     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2014-06-04 18:47   ` David Kastrup

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