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  • How do you enter a password containing newline? Commented Jul 23, 2020 at 6:18
  • @OleTange, that very much depends on the interface that inputs those passwords if any. For instance, if the password is retrieved as an environment variable, that can be PASSWORD=$'a"b\nc,d' some-command. With basic HTTP authentication, newline would be base64 encoded like any other character. In any case, that's hardly relevant to this Q&A. Commented Jul 23, 2020 at 6:38