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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: Can sh or csh do this VMS DCL trick??
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Date: 28 Apr 91 00:34:14 GMT
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From the keyboard of davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu  (John E. Davis):
:  In VMS DCL I can do:
:     $ create post_news.txt
:     $ deck
:          In VMS DCL I can do:
:
:             .... etc....
:     $ eod
:     $ exit
:        
:  In other words, text following `$ deck' is treated as lines to be fed into
:the standard input of the previous command (create in this case).  Finally,
:the `$ eod' terminates input and control is passed back to the DCL command
:procedure.  How can I simulate this behavior in csh or sh?  Solutions
:requiring two files are not acceptable.

Sounds like you want the ``here-is'' notation:

    cat >post_news.txt <<EOD
	blah blah 
	... etc ..
    EOD

In Bourne-compatible shells (and perl) you can control whether variables
get interpolated in the intervening text: just quote the token (in this
case EOD), and you quote the text.  The csh, to no one's great surprise,
has no such ability.


--tom