Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm confused by this as my script does not use the escape sequence "\r" > out of portability concerns. It has a literal carriage return as you get > from typing Ctrl-Q Ctrl-M in emacs or Ctrl-V Ctrl-M in bash ... I think the worry is that some implementations of sed may be unhappy to see these raw control characters in the sed script.