Re: Directing into a variable doesn't work

[Pierre Gaston]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 8:35 PM, Peter Passchier <peter@passchier.net>
wrote:

> On 06/25/2018 12:27 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
> > That's not the real issue - rather it is that a here doc is presented to
> the
> > command beng run as a file descrptior
>
> OK, thanks, that makes sense. In the case of a here-variable, that would
> definitely be the case then.
>
> Peter
>
>
>
Also, in practice, there  is also a  good chance that the
tempfiles are written on a tmpfs filesystem  and thus memory,
and even if it is not the case with all the caching done by
the OS there is a chance your data will never actually be written on the
disk.