diff --git a/src/test/examples.ml b/src/test/examples.ml
index 4cc38ab..1536a23 100644
--- a/src/test/examples.ml
+++ b/src/test/examples.ml
@@ -68,6 +68,16 @@ let downloader () =
     let options = List.concat_map regexp_list ~f:(fun r -> ["-e"; r]) in
     string >> exec (["grep"; "-q"] @ options) |> succeeds in
 
+  let no_newline_sed ~input expr =
+    let with_potential_newline =
+      string_concat [input; string "\n"]
+      >> exec ["sed"; expr]
+      |> output_as_string
+    in
+    with_potential_newline >> exec ["tr"; "-d"; "\\n"]
+    |> output_as_string
+  in
+
   let module Unwrapper = struct
 
     type cmd = unit t
@@ -80,8 +90,8 @@ let downloader () =
       {extension = ext; verb; commands}
 
     let remove_suffix v suf =
-      v >> exec ["sed"; sprintf "s:^\\(.*\\)%s$:\\1:" suf]
-      |> output_as_string
+      no_newline_sed ~input:v (sprintf "s:^\\(.*\\)%s$:\\1:" suf)
+
 
     let to_switch name_variable t_list =
       let make_case t =
@@ -154,9 +164,7 @@ let downloader () =
         if_seq (filename_ov =$= no_value)
           ~t:begin
             let filename =
-              url >> exec ["sed"; "s:.*/\\([^\\?\\/]*\\)\\?.*:\\1:"]
-              |> output_as_string
-            in
+              no_newline_sed ~input:url "s:.*/\\([^\\?\\/]*\\)\\?.*:\\1:" in
             let output_path =
               string_concat [tmp_dir; string "/"; filename] in
             [current_name#set output_path]
diff --git a/tools/travis_ci_test.sh b/tools/travis_ci_test.sh
index dabbe50..2544770 100644
--- a/tools/travis_ci_test.sh
+++ b/tools/travis_ci_test.sh
@@ -69,6 +69,37 @@ make native
 gennspio_test=_build/src/test/genspio-test.byte
 genspio_examples=_build/src/test/genspio-examples.byte
 
-$genspio_test
+echo "================== TEST 0 ======================================================"
+$gennspio_test
+
+# We also run the example
+# we get the script and then we test it
+
+genspio_downloader=/tmp/genspio-downloader
+$genspio_examples dl $genspio_downloader
+
+sh $genspio_downloader -h
+
+echo "================== TEST 1 ======================================================"
+sh $genspio_downloader -c -t /tmp/test1 -f k3.0.0.tar.gz -u https://github.com/hammerlab/ketrew/archive/ketrew.3.0.0.tar.gz
+ls -la /tmp/test1
+test -f /tmp/test1/k3.0.0.tar
+test -f /tmp/test1/ketrew-ketrew.3.0.0/README.md
+
+
+echo "================== TEST 2 ======================================================"
+sh $genspio_downloader -c -t /tmp/genstest2 -u https://www.dropbox.com/s/h16b8ak9smkgw3g/test.tar.gz.zip.bz2.tbz2?raw=1
+ls -la /tmp/genstest2
+test -f /tmp/genstest2/src/lib/EDSL.ml
+
+echo "================== TEST 3 ======================================================"
+# like -t /tmp/test2, without -c (which is fragile w.r.t. tar)
+mkdir -p /tmp/test3
+cd /tmp/test3
+sh $genspio_downloader -u https://github.com/hammerlab/ketrew/archive/ketrew.3.0.0.tar.gz
+ls -la /tmp/test3
+test -f /tmp/test3/ketrew-ketrew.3.0.0/README.md
+
+
+
 
-$genspio_examples dl -