* Chris Torek: > You must use a literal line feed, e.g.: > > LF=' > ' Of course, silly me. Easily done in a shell script. I was too focused on trying it in an interactive shell. Thanks, Chris. Do you perhaps know of a function in the Git code base which could be used to sanitise strings? It is quite a lot of code to sift through if one is unfamiliar with it, so I'll gladly take hints. -Ralph
