Re: [PATCH 4/4] git-version-gen: remove cr as well
"David A. Wheeler" <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 09:22:07 -0600, Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote: > Sadly, this won't work. There's no easily portable way to specify a raw > carriage return in scripting If your system has printf (which is in POSIX and widely supported), you could do this to set variable "cr" to carriage return (since printf supports \r): cr=$(printf '\rX') cr="${cr%X}" --- David A. Wheeler