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Re: [Help-bash] Understanding read -r
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] Understanding read -r |
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Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:16:13 -0400 |
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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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