Subject: Re: Bash operator << broken in 17.1
From: [email-masked] (Fergus Henderson)

20 Feb 1997 10:25:28 -0800
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In-Reply-To: <[email-masked]> from "Charles Peterson" at Feb 19, 97 06:09:41 pm
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Charles Peterson, you wrote:
> 
> The bash operator << is broken in GNU-WIN32 17.1 under Windows NT 4.0.
> For example, try this:
> 
> cat >test << XYZ
> > 1
> > 2
> > XYZ
> 
> You get an error like
> 
> bash.exe: 410230543 File or directory not found

This is a FAQ: the solution is `mkdir /tmp'.

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