From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
To: zsh workers <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: indented heredocs
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 11:04:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1482433489.24491.17.camel@niobium.home.fifi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7aWm9ZTYr2mh_1T+9mmHQXN9L_CYz878FoqMzwUerL72w@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2016-12-21 at 15:04 -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Bart Schaefer
> <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> >
> > % cat <<-' xx'
>
> Chet Ramey reminds me (palm to forehead) that this already means to
> quote the here-document content. So, we'd need some other way of
> quoting the leading whitespace.
Isn't the whole thing overkill?
We already can handle the simple cases:
cat <<EOD will use the document as is
cat <<-EOD will strip leading tabs
If you want anything fancier, you can always used sed:
sed -e 's!^ !!' <<EOD
or even zsh itself:
while read -r line; do print -r ${line# }; done <<EOD
Phil.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-22 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-21 19:29 Dave Yost
2016-12-21 19:50 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-12-21 20:38 ` Dave Yost
2016-12-21 22:10 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-12-21 23:04 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-12-22 19:04 ` Philippe Troin [this message]
2016-12-22 21:10 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-12-29 9:56 ` Vincent Lefevre
2016-12-29 22:31 ` Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov (ZyX)
2016-12-30 2:56 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-12-31 18:11 ` Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov (ZyX)
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