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From: torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Can sh or csh do this VMS DCL trick??
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Date: 28 Apr 91 15:29:05 GMT
References: <DAVIS.91Apr27183503@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> <1991Apr28.003414.26784@convex.com>
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In article <1991Apr28.003414.26784@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM
(Tom Christiansen) describes `here-documents', and concludes with
>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.

Actually, it does.  It is merely somewhat annoying about it.  In sh,

	cat << \end
	foo
	end

and

	cat << 'end'
	foo
	end

do the same thing.  In the C shell these must be spelled as

	cat << \end
	foo
	\end

and

	cat << 'end'
	foo
	'end'

respectively.
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