I think it is considerably easier to create here documents on the fly (eg. awk output) than correctly quoted strings. But for me the memory vs. temp file argument is largely irrelevant, due to ramfs.
Martin
* erik quanstrom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> the main argument i can see for having here documents at all
> is that they can be arbitrarily long. if you put the whole thing
> in memory, they would loose there reason for being. why not
> just use quotes?
>
> - erik
