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From: "Fabrice Niessen" <fni AT missioncriticalit DOT com>
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Subject: Single quotes inside here document
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:36:59 +0100
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Hello,

I try to run the following script on the latest Cygwin (updated yesterday) on
Windows XP SP3:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
data=$(cat <<'EOF'
Date valeur;Reference de l'operation;Description;Montant de l'operation;Devise;Date d'operation;Compte de contrepartie;Nom de la contrepartie :;Communication 1 :;Communication 2 :
04-06-2009;A9F04NT01WK300TG;Virem. internet;420,00;EUR;04-06-2009;799-5900947-23;PAYEE ONE; ; 
24-02-2009;A9B24NT012K4018Z;Virem. internet;-54,93;EUR;24-02-2009;799-9974005-30;ME;Eigen rekening; 
18-05-2008;A8E19NT000S604QI;Virem. internet;-1.000,00;EUR;19-05-2008;799-8068445-18;PAYEE TWO; ;
EOF
)
echo "$data"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

    Note -- Of course, the goal is not to simply echo the data, but to process
    it through pipes, such as: echo "$data" | grep "PAYEE ONE".

but it fails with the following error:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
sh: line 2: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
sh: line 10: syntax error: unexpected end of file
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

This is due to the apostrophe in the French labels (of the header line of this
Excel CSV file) -- but people report me that exact same script works under
Linux...

Any idea on how to:
- circumvent this problem?
- or, eventually, do this better?

Best regards,
  Fabrice Niessen

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