konglu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > That's what we originally did. Though we did it with indentations: > tmp=$(sed "/^pick .*/i\ > exec $i" "$1") Inside double quotes \<newline> is removed. You need to double the backslash. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html