> On Dec 21, 2016, at 9:10 AM, Ansgar Wiechers <li...@planetcobalt.net> wrote: > >> 3. I has a mysterious "<<<", instead of "<". > > `... <<< $var` is bash 4 syntactic sugar for `echo $var | ...`.
An exceedingly bad way to handle message content, especially sans quotes around "$var". -- Viktor.