Bonno Bloksma <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] some was new like the use of the letters EOF in stead of the > "real" EOF character.
That's only because the OP used the << construct. Let me demonstrate. In this example, where I've written ^D you would need to press Ctrl/D: cat >/tmp/file1 type your stuff here ^D wc /tmp/file1 In this example, where I've written STOP you would enter a line actually containing that four letter word: cat >/tmp/file2 <<STOP type your stuff here STOP wc /tmp/file2 You'll see that the second example can be trivially copied from here and pasted to a terminal, whereas the first cannot. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
