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2019-12-07

• 10:06 UTC (new) 2019-12-07 Dollar-quoted strings in Bash . . . . Marcin Borkowski – As we all know, bash is a terrible but ubiquitous thing. Nowadays I usually avoid writing bash scripts as much as I can – but sometimes I really need to do something bash-y, for instance in the command line. One thing I encountered some time ago is putting newlines into bash strings, e.g. in parameters. My use case was that I wanted to make a Git commit from command line with a multiline commit message.

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