Re: [Help-bash] Understanding read -r

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/4/12 6:58 PM, Dan Douglas wrote:

> As an aside, mksh has an interesting syntax to assign a heredoc result 
> directly to a variable:
> 
> # mksh
> 
> var=<<EOF
> ...
> EOF
> 
> This is optimized to happen in memory with no temporary file.

Is that anything more than syntactic sugar?  It doesn't seem different
enough from multi-line double- or single-quoted strings to make it worth
adding.

Chet
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