Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes:

> Or to use two lines instead of one. And to support multiple entries make
> the different entries separated by an empty line (so that it's possible
> to add supplementary fields in the future shall that be required).

> ---
> <source1>
> <dest1>

> <source2>
> <dest2>
> ---

This still doesn't give a completely general solution, although at this
point the number of characters that aren't allowed becomes an edge case.
I don't know if it's worth formalizing an escape procedure so that one
could divert arbitrary filenames (which can contain, for example,
newlines).

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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