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...