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Re: what's the use case of an eof-string?
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Thomas Sattler |
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Re: what's the use case of an eof-string? |
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Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:04:38 +0100 |
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>> eof-strings are only mentioned in the OPTIONS part,
>> but there aren't any examples for this. Could some-
>> body please give a real-live usecase for it?
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> I cannot. But the reason why the options exists is
> because of xargs compatibility.
OK, so let's forget about the "real-life" aspect. Is it
correct, that the eof-thing exists, to stop processing
in the middle of an input file, if the magic eof-string
appears?
Something like this:
---8<--------------------------------------
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
4 4 5 5 6 6 6 7 7
EOF
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Thomas