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  1. Submitted-by: davidf@mks.com (David J. Fiander)
  2.  
  3. According to mengel@dcdmwm.fnal.gov (Marc W. Mengel)
  4. >It is also why the shell has
  5. >here-documents, so you can say
  6. >
  7. >    foo=`sed 1q <<EOF
  8. >    hi there
  9. >    EOF`
  10. >    echo $foo
  11. >    echo Done
  12. >
  13. >to to the job right in a script, pipeline, etc.
  14.  
  15. I'm quite aware of that.  The problem is that the standard
  16. seems to be attempting to allow my example in scripts and, in
  17. my opinion, failing badly.
  18.  
  19. - David
  20.  
  21.  
  22. Volume-Number: Volume 28, Number 101
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