Phillip Wood <phillip.w...@talktalk.net> 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.