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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1523812" data-attributes="member: 110816">Bash will give you that symbol if you enter a command that needs multiple arguments to succeed..on the other hand, if you put in the argument that causes the command to kick off, then you won't need to hit CTRL-d to break out of it..For example, if you do[CODE]$ while [ 1 ];&gt; do&gt; echo &quot;Hello&quot;&gt; sleep 1&gt; doneHelloHelloHello...[/CODE]The 'done' here is the final keyword/argument to the 'while' command to get started, so I immediately start seeing my Hello message showing up one every second.When you use the history (up arrow) to see what command BASH executed, you see[CODE]while [ 1 ]; do echo &quot;Hello&quot;; sleep 1; done[/CODE]On the other hand, a common use of this BASH tactic is to create a new file with something like[CODE]$ cat &gt; file.txt &lt;&lt; EOF&gt; This is line one&gt; and line two&gt; and so on&gt; EOF[/CODE]The result of this is:[CODE]$ cat file.txtThis is line oneand line twoand so on[/CODE]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1523812, member: 110816"] Bash will give you that symbol if you enter a command that needs multiple arguments to succeed..on the other hand, if you put in the argument that causes the command to kick off, then you won't need to hit CTRL-d to break out of it.. For example, if you do [CODE] $ while [ 1 ]; > do > echo "Hello" > sleep 1 > done Hello Hello Hello ... [/CODE] The 'done' here is the final keyword/argument to the 'while' command to get started, so I immediately start seeing my Hello message showing up one every second. When you use the history (up arrow) to see what command BASH executed, you see [CODE] while [ 1 ]; do echo "Hello"; sleep 1; done [/CODE] On the other hand, a common use of this BASH tactic is to create a new file with something like [CODE] $ cat > file.txt << EOF > This is line one > and line two > and so on > EOF [/CODE] The result of this is: [CODE] $ cat file.txt This is line one and line two and so on [/CODE] [/QUOTE]

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