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Re: Single quotes inside here document

From: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:59:28 -0700
Subject: Re: Single quotes inside here document
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On 01/18/2011 07:54 AM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> I wonder about the form: <<'EOF' and similar,
> versus: <<EOF

If the word after << is quoted (via "", '', or \), then $, ``, and \
lose their special meanings in the body of the here-doc and no longer
introduce substitutions.

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Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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- Single quotes inside here document
  - From: Fabrice Niessen
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