On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 09:22:07 -0600, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > Sadly, this won't work. There's no easily portable way to specify a raw > carriage return in scripting
If your system has printf (which is in POSIX and widely supported),
you could do this to set variable "cr" to carriage return (since printf
supports \r):
cr=$(printf '\rX')
cr="${cr%X}"
--- David A. Wheeler
