From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-07-08T23:29:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Accept sh heredocs to Ruby script

Oliver Saunders wrote:
> In sh, you can do this:
> 
> $ cat <<donenow
>> i
>> like
>> jam
>> donenow
> i
> like
> jam
> $
> 
> This suggests to me that cat should receive a temporary file as a result
> of the heredoc that it can then display similar to the <() construct:

What leads you to think that << creates a temp file? Maybe the shell is 
just piping the heredoc contents to the ruby child process's stdin?

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