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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

         <<<word

  The word is expanded and supplied to the command on its standard input.
-==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-

The immediately preceding section is about "here documents" and is very
good for shell programmers to know about.


Randall Schulz
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