Re: (feature request) here-document, but from a file
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 11:43:36PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, William Park wrote: Dear Chet, It would be nice if I can read a file and process it as though it was here-document text in the script. Mainly, I want variable substitution, without calling lots of 'sed'. In Python, you would do print ... % ... So, perhaps, you can use syntax like cat + file cat file Why can't you use: cat file Because he wants variable substitution. Something like cat $( file) might work. Darn it, it does work. Argghh... I already included a here-file patch with my latest release: http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/index.html#herefile http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/index.html#here_file Usage: cat file herefile file herefile file Hi Chet. Off topic... I'm currently considering adding GTK+ interface to Bash, so that you can do basic dialog stuff in Bash directly. But, if it's only dialog stuff, then there isn't much point, because you can just use real 'dialog' or 'Xdialog'. Have you come across any project that tries to add GUI features to any shell? -- William Park [EMAIL PROTECTED], Toronto, Canada ThinFlash: Linux thin-client on USB key (flash) drive http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/thinflash.html BashDiff: Super Bash shell http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdiff/ ___ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
Re: (feature request) here-document, but from a file
Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: William Park wrote: It would be nice if I can read a file and process it as though it was here-document text in the script. Mainly, I want variable substitution, without calling lots of 'sed'. In Python, you would do print ... % ... So, perhaps, you can use syntax like cat + file cat file Why can't you use: cat file The original poster said that the behavior wanted was variable substitution as in a here-document. Using 'cat file' would not expand any variables. However counter proposals are useful. Will this work for you? eval echo $(file) That will expand variables from the file using existing standard syntax. Bob ___ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
Re: (feature request) here-document, but from a file
William Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be nice if I can read a file and process it as though it was here-document text in the script. Mainly, I want variable substitution, without calling lots of 'sed'. eval blah EOT `cat file` EOT But this breaks if file contains an EOT line. paul ___ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
Re: (feature request) here-document, but from a file
Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, William Park wrote: Dear Chet, It would be nice if I can read a file and process it as though it was here-document text in the script. Mainly, I want variable substitution, without calling lots of 'sed'. In Python, you would do print ... % ... So, perhaps, you can use syntax like cat + file cat file Why can't you use: cat file Because he wants variable substitution. Something like cat $( file) might work. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live...Laugh...Love Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ ___ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
