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From: maht-9fans@mail.maht0x0r.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] late to the party - Here docs
Date: Tue,  6 Nov 2007 20:31:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4730CF32.8070704@mail.maht0x0r.net> (raw)

hi,

I've not been able to post for a while (verifying sender didn't like 
me), so I've got a few things stored up

I think it was eric that said the only place here docs are used in plan9 
default is in /sys/lib/newuser and there whoever wrote it went through 
some shenanigans to get $ in the output  (though this is snipped):

x='$'
cat > lib/profile <<!
bind -a $x^home/bin/rc /bin
!

However, what that person seems not to know is that they could have done $$ to escape the $ :

cat > lib/profile <<!

bind -a $$home/bin/rc /bin
!

I like here documents, I think they look better than multi-line echoes though it is annoying they can't be used in fn definitions.

Matt











             reply	other threads:[~2007-11-06 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-06 20:31 maht-9fans [this message]
2007-11-06 21:07 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-07 16:41   ` dave.l
2007-11-07 20:19     ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-07 21:20       ` geoff
2007-11-07 21:23         ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-07 22:58       ` Martin Neubauer
2007-11-07 23:04         ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-07 23:24           ` Martin Neubauer
2007-11-08  0:37       ` dave.l
2007-11-08  1:21         ` Gregory Pavelcak
2007-11-06 21:54 ` arisawa

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