5 May
2017
5 May
'17
8:46 p.m.
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.
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