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Subject: Re: [9fans] here document
From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:25:52 -0400
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> I think it is considerably easier to create here documents on the fly (eg.
> awk output) than correctly quoted strings. 

that's the beauty of rc-style quoting.  a simple sed script is enough
to stuff '.  it's easy to do this on the fly.  your awk script needn't
know.  i wrote a bundle-like utility ~10 years ago for a shell i wrote
that used this trick as my shell didn't have here documents.

> But for me the memory vs. temp
> file argument is largely irrelevant, due to ramfs.

what does that mean?  surely you're not running ramfs from
your profile.

- erik