Re: [opensuse] BASH - brain teaser, can it be done without a pipe?

On Wednesday 23 April 2008 12:50, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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sed -e 's/\.//' <<< "$t"

What is <<< ?

I know < and <<, but the above does not look like a typo.

Greg

Type these characters at a shell prompt (omitting the surrounding quotes): "man bash<ENTER>/<<<<ENTER>" Oh, my that's a bit ambiguous. After the slash, type three less-than's and hit ENTER. Here's what you'll see: -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- Here Strings A variant of here documents, the format is: <<