Re: (feature request) Shell script within shell script

[william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Will Yardley)]

On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 12:48:01AM +0900, Clifford Caoile wrote:
 
> I am not an expert, but I was exploring here documents in bash and zsh just
> this last week. Let me see if I get this right:
> 
> In zsh-4.0.x, you can use "here documents" or "here-strings". A here
> document has this syntax (note there is no double quotations necessary):
> 
> >> /etc/hosts <<EOF
> 192.168.0.26 mynewcomputer.zsh.org
> EOF
> 
> This adds the line to the /etc/hosts file. The cat command is implicit.
> (It's still a useless cat trick, right?)

Zsh can already do heredocs; whether you use quotes or not affects how
quotes and stuff are treated in the actual heredoc.

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