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I personnaly still don't understand

Kiwy
– Kiwy

2014-02-10 08:54:57 +00:00
Commented Feb 10, 2014 at 8:54
@Kiwy What is it that you don't understand?

devnull
– devnull

2014-02-10 08:55:42 +00:00
Commented Feb 10, 2014 at 8:55
Well reading it third time I start to understand you should express it as a end of input delimiter instead it would be way more clear than writing some script and explaining after.

Kiwy
– Kiwy

2014-02-10 08:57:20 +00:00
Commented Feb 10, 2014 at 8:57
@devnull : so, << will act as input if i say grep "somestring" << filename.txt ...just asking to clear out my head on this!!

NoobEditor
– NoobEditor

2014-02-10 08:58:15 +00:00
Commented Feb 10, 2014 at 8:58
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@NoobEditor You might want to refer to a couple of links added in the answer.

devnull
– devnull

2014-02-10 09:08:26 +00:00
Commented Feb 10, 2014 at 9:08

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like so
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def function(foo):
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```
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