Re: Embedded data in shell scripts?

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From: David J. Fiander
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:38

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Submitted-by: davidf@mks.com (David J. Fiander)

According to mengel@dcdmwm.fnal.gov (Marc W. Mengel)
>It is also why the shell has
>here-documents, so you can say
>
>	foo=`sed 1q <<EOF
>	hi there
>	EOF`
>	echo $foo
>	echo Done
>
>to to the job right in a script, pipeline, etc.

I'm quite aware of that.  The problem is that the standard
seems to be attempting to allow my example in scripts and, in
my opinion, failing badly.

- David


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