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Re: Source style regarding here-documents



On 12/27/2012 08:55 AM, Daniel Reichelt wrote:
> - -----8<--------
> while true
> do
> 	if $foo
> 	then
> 		cat >foo <<-EOF
> 			bar
> 			blah
> 		EOF
> 	fi
> done
> - -----8<--------

...versus posix-only:

---snip---
while true
do
	if $foo
	then

cat > foo << EOF
bar
blah
EOF

	fi
done
---snap---

there are no technical advantages of the non-posix one over the
posix-only one. it is only a slight cosmetical improvement. and just for
that alone i don't think makes it worth depending on bash or dash. also,
it's not that we do that in lb that often anyway.

thanks for your suggestion though.

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