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Date: Mon,  8 Oct 2007 15:46:36 +0800
From: sqweek <sqweek@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] here document
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On 10/8/07, arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp <arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> It seems "here document" in rc function is not working.
> Try:
>
> fn foo {
> cat <<'EOD'
> World
> EOD
> }
>
> echo Hello
> foo

 Your syntax is wrong. In rc the here document comes after the closing
brace, as in:

for(i in 1 2 3) {
cat <<EOF
}
Hello
EOF

 However, note the BUGS section of rc(1): "Functions that use here
documents don't work."
-sqweek