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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> > +rm $rr/postimage
>> > +echo -ne "$sha1\ta1\0" > .git/rr-cache/MERGE_RR
>> 
>> Hmmmmmm.  I've stayed away from "echo -e" so far...
>
> Rather do it with tr? Like this:
>
> 	echo -n "$sha1	a1X" | tr X '\0' > .git/rr-cache/MERGE_RR

Bog-standard old timer's way is not to use -n nor X but just do:

	echo "stuff you want to NUL terminate" | tr '\012' '\0'

> Is $((1+2)) portable enough? I always thought this is a bashism...

That's also in ksh and dash (and in POSIX) and recent updates to
out *.sh scripts make liberal use of them.  As long as you do
not overflow you are fine.