Re: "here strings" and tmpfiles

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/19/19 8:49 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Tue, 19 Mar 2019 08:25:50 -0400
>     From:        Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
>     Message-ID:  <20190319122550.khv5jp66iobjoejn@eeg.ccf.org>
> 
>   | Yes, just like here documents do.  And have always done, in all shells.
> 
> That's not correct.   There are shells that don't use files for here
> docs.   Any application that relies on stdin being seekable is broken
> (unless it makes that happen for itself) - the most obvious example
> which is not seekable is when stdin is a terminal.

I'm not saying such an application isn't broken. I'm saying that such
applications exist and have worked with bash.

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