[9fans] rc funny - still perplexed

[9fans] rc funny - still perplexed

[steve.simon]

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Thanks for the help Russ,

You  are quite correct - the EOF must go in the first collumn, however I still
get weird results,
simplified script below - I would expect it to print ls twice, but it prints it
once and gives
a directory listing the second time!

-Steve



 

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#!/bin/rc

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cat << 'EOF1'
	/bin/ls -l
EOF1


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{
	cat << 'EOF2'
		ls | mc
}
EOF2

Re: [9fans] rc funny - still perplexed

[Russ Cox]

Perhaps I wasn't clear.  It's not just
that EOF2 has to go in the first column.
The here document does not start until all the
braces close.

If you want the second example to print "ls | mc"
rather than run that command, you have to say

{
	cat <<'EOF2'
	other commands here
}
# here document for cat starts here
ls | mc
EOF2