On 2014-09-06 09.34, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Stephen Boyd <bebarino@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>>> I see Stephen who wrote the original "Thunderbird save-as" is >>>> already on the Cc list. How about doing it this way instead? >> >> It was so long ago I can't even remember writing that patch. But I >> googled the thread from 4.5 years ago and I see that you suggested we >> use tr because \r is not portable[1]. > > Hmph. That's unfortunate that this may be one of those things that > even though it is in POSIX the real world prevents us from using it. > > I wonder if things changed over the past four years, though. Can > folks on OSX or BSD do a quick check? > I may have missed the discussion, does this help? "\r" can be used with tr, but not with sed: tb@macosx:/tmp> cat ./xx.sh #!/bin/sh which tr printf "AB\rCD\n" | tr 'A\r\n\BCD' 'aRNbcd' | xxd printf "E\rE" | tr -d '\r' | xxd which sed printf "AB\rCD\n" | sed -e 's/\r/R/g' | xxd printf "E\rE" | sed -e 's/\r//g' | xxd tb@macosx:/tmp> ./xx.sh /usr/bin/tr 0000000: 6162 5263 644e abRcdN 0000000: 4545 EE /usr/bin/sed 0000000: 4142 0d43 440a AB.CD. 0000000: 450d 450a E.E. tb@macosx:/tmp> -- 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