January 11th, 2009

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• 01.11.09
  Here documents shell | n0str0m0 | (0)

  A here document is a way to define a literal string preserving the space, new line characters, etc. It is used with the << redirection operator and it needs a delimiter token. Let's see an example: $ cat << _END >file > This is > a multiline > string > _END $ cat file This is a multiline string I used _END as delimiter, but you can use whatever you want (endOfDocument, _EOF_, etc)

  Tagged: cat, token