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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with here-document not seeing delimiter Post 303019406 by edstevens on Friday 29th of June 2018 09:25:49 AM
Old 06-29-2018
Out of desperation, I tried re-typing the entire script from scratch - no copy and paste. This time it worked. Smilie

---------- Post updated 06-29-18 at 08:25 AM ---------- Previous update was 06-28-18 at 02:41 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
There you are - EOF with three trailing spaces! Try without.

Well, I learned something today. I knew that the EOF had to be at the beginning of the line (immediately following x'0a', but never knew that it was also sensitive to trailing spaces. Thanks for catching that.
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MKSARY(1)							       Sary								 MKSARY(1)

NAME
mksary - manual page for mksary 1.0.2 SYNOPSIS
mksary [OPTION]... FILE DESCRIPTION
-a, --array=ARRAY set the array file name to ARRAY -b, --block=[SIZE] do block sorting with SIZE [1024] KB block -s, --sort sort the array file -l, --line index every line -w, --word index every word delimited by white spaces -c, --codeset=CODESET, handle CODESET for indexing [bytestream], ASCII, ISO-8859, EUC-JP, Shift_JIS, UTF-8 -L, --locale enable locale support (employ mblen for indexing) -q, --quiet suppress all normal output -v, --version print version information and exit -h, --help display this help and exit COPYRIGHT
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