Subject: Re: [PATCH] t9001: avoid not portable '\n' with sed

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 21:16:03 +0200

John Keeping <[email-masked]> writes:

> So the portable way to do it is:
>
> 	sed "s/^From:/$header: [email-masked]\
> From:/" cover-to-edit.patch >"$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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