Re: [9fans] late to the party - Here docs

[arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp]

Hello,

Try:

cat > lib/profile <<'!'

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

Kenji Arisawa

On 2007/11/07, at 5:31, maht-9fans@mail.maht0x0r.net wrote:

> hi,
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> 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
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> 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):
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> x='$'
> cat > lib/profile <<!
> bind -a $x^home/bin/rc /bin
> !
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> However, what that person seems not to know is that they could have  
> done $$ to escape the $ :
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> cat > lib/profile <<!
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> bind -a $$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
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