Re: is there a way to save stdout and stderr to two bash variables?

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/12/20 6:23 AM, Peng Yu wrote:

>     Theoretically, I don't think you can assume that a here-document can be
>     stored in RAM as its size is only limited by the storage medium that
>     hold the script that it is part of.
> 
> 
> I am not sure this statement is relevant to most real usage. I mostly use
> heredoc for short strings, it would be costly to use external files instead
> of in memory strings.

By the same logic, since the historical bash implementation of here
documents and here strings uses temp files, the concerns about performance
are mostly exaggerated.

Chet
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