> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> -e "s/[ ]NameData/\ name/g" \
> >> -e "s/^NameData/\name/g" \
>
> > What is that \n doing in there? It is certainly wrong. I am just
> > wondering what is should be.
>
> It's been like that since 1996, according to the CVS logs. I'm
> surprised we have not had more reports of trouble --- either the shell
> or sed might be deciding to translate that \n to a newline, although
> evidently the consensus behavior is not to.
It is truly amazing that is worked since 1996 that way.
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