Bug in /bin/sh??
Maarten Litmaath
maart at cs.vu.nl
Tue Jul 4 10:52:18 AEST 1989
jbrayton at mipos2.intel.com (Jim Brayton) writes:
\...
\#!/bin/sh
\
\bogus=`cat << END
\a
\END
\`
\
\/bin/echo $bogus
[doesn't work as expected]
Seems a bug to me indeed. On the other hand though I'd expect the following
to work TOO:
#!/bin/sh
foo=`cat` << EOF
bar
EOF
echo $foo
Did you try this?
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