[Gllug] Bash scripting question

[Russell Howe]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:52:03PM +0100, ccooke wrote:
> (Not knowing the mail clients people are using, I'll add this as a
> header: In the following, the newline character '\n' should appear 
> as a 'backslash-n', not 'n'. If this is not the case on your MTA, 
> please read it as '\\n').


nitpick: s/MTA/MUA/ (mail client = Mail User Agent). I'm sure you know
that, but we wouldn't want people to go misusing TLAs now, would we? :)

I'd also add that if your mail client is hiding the \ for some reason
then you should be pretty concerned about WTF it's playing at! Honestly,
an MUA parsing the message body of an email - whoever heard of such a
thing! Next you'll be telling me people use markup languages in mail
messages, or try to use email to transmit binary content or something!
The IETF would never approve!

*cough*MIME*cough*

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