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Then compare that in a twenty line block. Makes writing the documentation easier and checking it painless (did you mean to mention 'echo' at the beginning of a line and your mind skipped over it because all the lines began with echo?)
Another very important use is automating commands such as FTP that don't otherwise provide a method for scripting;
-
+<verbatim>
ftp -n <<EOF
open ftp.example.org
user anonymous ${USER}@
cd /path/to/file
binary
passive
get file.gz2
EOF
-
+</verbatim>
See bash(1).
