On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:14:19AM -0800, Ryan Cunningham wrote: > Sorry, I forgot to state that it could also be saved by an object code editor > and loaded then like you would load any other program in object code.
Bash doesn't run object code, except in one very unusual situation: a user-supplied loadable builtin. There's relatively little information on those because they are so seldom used. Here's a small set of URLs: http://cfajohnson.com/shell/articles/dynamically-loadable/ http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashLoadable http://cfajohnson.com/shell/bash/loadables/ I don't see any direct connection between here documents and loadable builtins, though.
