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Re: [Help-bash] bash variable interpolation


From: Matthew Cengia
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] bash variable interpolation
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 11:14:17 +1100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On 2015-03-19 19:06, Peng Yu wrote:
[...]
> Heredoc is good when the doc is short. But when the doc is long, it is
> better to put it in a file.
> 
> Therefore, could there be a new feature in bash called, say, theredoc
> be added for this case?

This is not what bash is for. There are tools specifically designed for
this purpose, namely M4 (http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html).

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Regards,
Matthew Cengia

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