Chris Angelico wrote: >>>+cat <<'EOM' >> What I've always used (since the dawn of time), is cat <<\EOM >> Which is perfectly portable, backward and forward from 1985 to 2014 and back.
>Yes, that version is portable, but it's slightly different. Putting >the end marker in single quotes makes the entire string unparsed, same >as a single-quoted string would otherwise be. I'd beg to differ. <<'EOM' and <<\EOM should be identical in behaviour. AFAIK *any* kind of quoting of the marker behind << will result in the behaviour you describe. -- Stephen.
