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Multiline comments in POSIX sh (euandre.org)
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[-] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

is

: <<EOF
  text
  text
EOF

a bash-ism?

[-] EuAndreh@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

AFAICT, not really, looks line POSIX sh at a glance. Just don't forget to : <<'EOF' instead of : <<EOF.

But : is arguably simpler than cat, one fewer fork/exec call plus no open(2) on /dev/null.

[-] EuAndreh@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

I like it, thanks :)

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