RE: Here Documents in commands

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Peter Ring" <address@hidden> writes:

  pr> Read up on 'Defining Variables Verbatim', the define
  pr> directive. Using define, you can assign a multi-line value to a
  pr> variable. This multi-line variable can of course contain
  pr> references to variables that will get expanded when you reference
  pr> the multi-line variable. Bingo, you've got a multi-line template.

This is not the same thing.  Each line of a multiline variable will be
treated as a separate line in the script--so, they will all be invoked
in separate shells (giving you a syntax error).

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