Re: "here strings" and tmpfiles

2019-04-07 Thread L A Walsh
On 3/22/2019 6:49 AM, Chet Ramey wrote: > Yes, that's how bash chooses to implement it. There are a few portable > ways > to turn a string into a file descriptor, and a temp file is one of them (a > child process using a pipe is another, but pipes have other issues). > Such as? That are more co

Re: "here strings" and tmpfiles

2019-04-07 Thread L A Walsh
On 3/20/2019 5:19 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 07:49:34AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > >> However, using files for here docs makes here docs unusable in a shell >> running in single user mode with no writable filesystems (whatever is >> mounted is read only, until after file