Re: Error when script uses CRLF line endings w/ if stmt

[Marc Herbert]

Jan Schampera a écrit :

> Moreover, POSIX talks about "<newline>" here, which is a \n. Though I
> didn't read through all the rationales, I just took a quick look, maybe
> it's not limited to \n.

'\n' can be two characters outside of POSIX, see "man fopen".

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It would feel good to use CRLF to bash Windows once again. Isn't
ridiculous and painful to have two characters for only one thing?

Unfortunately CRLF pre-dates Windows by decades. You can argue it is
older and more standard than LF. For instance many internet protocols
use it.

Now I wonder how come a third convention emerged. Just to "think different"?