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. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz