Subject: Re: Here-Scripts in bash
From: [email-masked] (Stefan Hornburg)

9 Apr 1997 23:05:19 -0700
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In-Reply-To: Axel Buschmann's message of Wed, 9 Apr 1997 09:35:11 +0200 (METDST)
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Axel Buschmann <[email-masked]> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> i am using GNU-Win32 version 17.1 on NT 4.0 (Service pack 2) for
> Workstation. 
> 
> I have a problem with bash. The here-scripts do not work.
> 
> Something like
> 
> cat  <<EOF
> Foo and bar
> EOF
> 
> leads to an error message in the style: file not found with a very
> suspicious filename, consisting of a long number. Even bashbug.exe
> does not work due to this problem.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 

Bash expects the temporary directory as /tmp, so run:

mkdir /tmp

Ciao
		Racke
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