* martin f. krafft:
> The file calls sendmail like this:
>
> generate_email $oldrev $newrev $refname
> | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t $envelopesender
The pipe is on the end of the first line.
> The first end-of-line needs to be escaped or else dash will barf.
This is a bug in dash, I'm afraid. Here's an excerpt from the POSIX
shell grammar:
pipe_sequence : command
| pipe_sequence '|' linebreak command
;
newline_list : NEWLINE
| newline_list NEWLINE
;
linebreak : newline_list
| /* empty */
;
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