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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Sunday, December 10, 2006 8:24:21 am | by GreigMcGill | Revert |
| Older page: | version 5 | Last edited on Saturday, December 9, 2006 11:23:07 pm | by BenStaz | Revert |
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*command <<< "string"
A here string uses a form of I/O redirection to feed a command to an *interactive* program or a command, such as ftp, cat, ex or read. This can be extremely handy. So basically those apps you run that allow user input can be automatically fed strings rather than you typing them!
-I find Here String's
very useful to easily assign values to multiple variables.
+I find Here Strings
very useful to easily assign values to multiple variables.
For Example:
*IFS=: ; read foo bar moo <<< "yellow:red:blue";
