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Re^2: [Good news] here docs portability!
by ysth (Canon) on Jun 17, 2007 at 05:19 UTC
    Well, it was obviously news to blazar, and it's pretty certain to be news to a good many others too.

    And sudo ln -s /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl`echo -e '\r'`

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      Better make that /bin/echo...

      What was I thinking, qx// is executed with /bin/sh regardless of user's favorite shell.

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        No, you are correct; the shell's `` will prefer the builtin echo, so what I gave won't work under some shells without explicitly asking for the coreutils /bin/echo. (Wow, the POSIX standard for echo is really dumb.)
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