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Multiline comments in POSIX sh (euandre.org)
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[โ€“] EuAndreh@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

AFAICT, not really, looks line POSIX sh at a glance. Just don't forget to : <<'EOF' instead of : <<EOF.

But : is arguably simpler than cat, one fewer fork/exec call plus no open(2) on /dev/null.

[โ€“] EuAndreh@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

I like it, thanks :)