From: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:42:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] am: fix patch format detection for Thunderbird "Save As" emails
Message-ID: <loom.20091218T223918-175@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <1261172078-9174-1-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com>

Stephen Boyd <bebarino <at> gmail.com> writes:

> +	{
> +		echo "X-Fake-Field: Line One\015" &&

echo and \ do not portably mix.  For that matter, shell double quotes and 
backslash escapes that are not required by POSIX do not portably mix.  To 
reliably create carriage returns in shell, you need to use printf, or else 
something like:

echo "...@" | tr '@' '\015'

-- 
Eric Blake