On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:22:06 +0100 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Now that "dosed" is going to be banned, what would people think of > "newins" (and the other "new*" commands) accepting "-" as the first > argument?
There's a slightly different variation in exheres-0: as well as do* and
new*, there's also here*, which you use like this:
hereins foo <<'END'
stuff
END
It magically barfs, rather than hanging indefinitely, if you forget to
give it some input.
The rationale for giving it a new name rather than overloading an
existing one is that some of the existing do* utilities don't take just
a single simple filename, so overloading would make the command line
somewhat convoluted.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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