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Re:Help Message for Shell Scripts by amelius on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @05:35PM (#23764377)
Seriously, bash has too many obscure features.
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Re:Help Message for Shell Scripts by ainar-g on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @05:58PM (#23764569)
Bash? It's POSIX: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V....
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Re:Help Message for Shell Scripts by emmelaich on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @09:33PM (#23766104)
Ruby and Perl have `here` docs as well.

And Ruby 2.5 has an enhancement which preserves leading whitespace.

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Re:Help Message for Shell Scripts by bmn__ on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @05:00AM (#23768163)
http://p3rl.org/op#Indented-Here-docs
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Re:Help Message for Shell Scripts by dungdongdang on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:45AM (#23767516)
a commonly used feature that has been a part of the unix standard since before "bash" only meant to hit something with a heavy object, while linus was getting his diaper changed is not an "obscure feature."

a five year old took his first aware car ride, and at a gas station saw the trunk of the car next to theirs open. he said "seriously, bmw has too many obscure features." after all, a car for him was where you put the baby seat. and why would you put that in a compartment with no windows or air, that's too small to even fit a baby seat.

did you enjoy the ride?

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