[CentOS] tabs ignored in here document

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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