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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
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Subject: Re: Differences with here documents
Date: 19 Jan 1993 20:13:13 GMT
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In article <1993Jan15.230023.5307@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul)
writes:
>
> cat <<\EOF
> $(CHNFILES)
> EOF
>
> and this did what I wanted. Does this mean that there's a bug with
> the ultrix shell (also SUNOS behaves in the same way).

No; the Ultsux shell simply doesn't understand the $() syntax.

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