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does not work
echo ${REV%%\n*}
does work
echo ${REV%%
*}
After reading trough http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html I still can not figure out how to make \n work.
${REV%%$'\n*'}seems to work. See the quoting section of the bash documentation.