LF=Line Feed, which *bsd, Linux and Unix use as a line ending string (DOS and OS/2 use CRLF).
The code you show is really an expression, using $() to swallow a new line. It's a cute shellism, but it's not really a string literal. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2021 11:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Coding for the future On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 14:14:41 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Here documents create strings containing embedded new lines, which *ix systems >encode as LF. They do not allow strings not containing embedded new lines to >be split across multiple lines of the source code. > "LF"? FSVO *ix. How about: cat <<EOF foo$( : )bar EOF 574 $ 574 $ cat <<EOF > foo$( : > )bar > EOF foobar I've suggested that technique for coding long lines and comments in FB80 STDIN for B PXBATCH. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
