On 5/5/17 1:52 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 05/05/2017 04:46 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 5/5/2017 1:41 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I just did a test where I created a file, xit, with the here document in it and ran it with ./xit
This way, the tabs remained. So the 'problem' is when I am pasting the same lines (with tabs) into the terminal window. There bash is interpreting the tabs and not feeding them into the here doc processing.
yes, bash interprets stdin differently than not stdin.
ARGH!!!
So can I control this? I want the howto to be a cut-n-paste operation. And I want to support real tabs not a bunch of spaces as I had previously...
Try cat <<- EOF
Note the dash. And yes, you must use tabs. Spaces are suppressed whereas tabs are not.
Jack