> I think it is considerably easier to create here documents on the fly (eg. > awk output) than correctly quoted strings.
that's the beauty of rc-style quoting. a simple sed script is enough to stuff '. it's easy to do this on the fly. your awk script needn't know. i wrote a bundle-like utility ~10 years ago for a shell i wrote that used this trick as my shell didn't have here documents. > But for me the memory vs. temp > file argument is largely irrelevant, due to ramfs. what does that mean? surely you're not running ramfs from your profile. - erik
