Can sh or csh do this VMS DCL trick??
Chris Torek
torek at elf.ee.lbl.gov
Mon Apr 29 01:29:05 AEST 1991
In article <1991Apr28.003414.26784 at convex.com> tchrist at convex.COM
(Tom Christiansen) describes `here-documents', and concludes with
>In Bourne-compatible shells (and perl) you can control whether variables
>get interpolated in the intervening text: just quote the token (in this
>case EOD), and you quote the text. The csh, to no one's great surprise,
>has no such ability.
Actually, it does. It is merely somewhat annoying about it. In sh,
cat << \end
foo
end
and
cat << 'end'
foo
end
do the same thing. In the C shell these must be spelled as
cat << \end
foo
\end
and
cat << 'end'
foo
'end'
respectively.
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