multiline snippets with triple quotes

[John Lenton]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 09:22:38AM -0400, Christopher T King wrote:
> 
> AFAIK, triple quotes do everything heredocs do (but with a cleaner 
> syntax!); the following produce identical output:
> 
> bash heredocs:
> 
> echo -n <<EOF
> Some text.
>   Woo!
> The end.
> EOF
> 
> Python triple quotes:
> 
> print '''\
> Some text.
>   Woo!
> The end.'''

what about
cat <<-EOF
>	1
>	2
>	3
>	EOF
1
2
3



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