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Re: [Groff] What does 'groff <<<foo' do?
From: |
Dave Kemper |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] What does 'groff <<<foo' do? |
Date: |
Sun, 2 Dec 2012 13:19:19 -0600 |
> 'cat <<<foo' or 'cat <<< foo' seems to be a way of passing
> what follows the "<<<" directly to the command, as if equivalent
> to "echo foo | cat".
Yes. It's documented in the bash man page under "Here Strings". I just
learned about it from Ralph's email myself. It's a great shortcut.