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Subject: varaiable expansion and here documents
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Date:	Mon, 18 Jan 1993 01:47:39 -0500
From:	Scott Merrilees <Sm@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au>

I ran into an inconsistancy recently that may be of interest:

; a=(aa bb cc)
; b=2
; echo $a($b)
bb
; cat << EOF
$a($b)
EOF
aa bb cc(2)
;

I expected the output from echo & cat to be identical.

Comments ?  Byron ?

Sm
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