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Re: Format of here-documents


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Format of here-documents
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 16:18:14 -0400
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On 3/14/23 11:09 AM, goncholden wrote:

The start sentence is incorrect because the ending line must be DELIMITER, not 
WORD.

This type of redirection instructs the shell to read input from the current 
source until a line containing only word (with no trailing blanks) is seen.

This is true. The man page uses `delimiter', so the info manual needs to be
updated to match it.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/




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