On Tue 10 May 2016 at 16:19:10 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Regrettably, Here Documents let the shell fiddle with their text. > > $ wc -c <<x > $(echo hello) > x > 6 > > So this is not a way to express arbitrary literal text. $ wc -c <<"x" $(echo hello) x 14 $ Cheers, David.