Hi,

I am having a problem with the Here doucment under ksh93. A simple script:

cat << EOF
testing 123
EOF

This runs fine under ksh, under ksh93 there's no output.

Has anyone run into this problem?

Thanks,
David

remove space between '<<' and 'EOF'

thanks for the suggestion. now the script looks:
cat <<EOF
testing 123
EOF

still does not work under ksh93.

Thanks.

what do you expect it to do AND what is it doing now?

put this into a scipt & run:
cat <<EOF
testing 123
EOF


under ksh you get 1 line of output:
testing 123

under ksh93 there's no output.

Thanks
David

how do you run it undet ksh93?
When you 'put this ina script'.... do you specify '#!/pathTOksh93' as the interpreter?
Or you simply don't specify the interpreter at all and run the 'script' from the ksh93 command prompt?

On the related note: are you sure however you run script under ksh93 it [script] is actually using /bin/cat? Check your $PATH and aliases for ksh93 - you might b eusing some other 'cat' [no pun intended].

I included the path, please try :

#!/bin/ksh
/usr/bin/cat <<EOF
testing 123
EOF

and

#!/bin/ksh93
/usr/bin/cat <<EOF
testing 123
EOF

sorry, I don't have k93 here, but on Solaris /usr/dt/bin/dtksh I think IS ksh93 and it works ok.

just for kicks... try:

#!/bin/ksh93
/usr/bin/cat - <<EOF
testing 123
EOF

What OS are you on anyway?

still did not display anything.
we are on AIX 5.2.

thanks for the help anyway. I apprciate your kindness in helping.

this is VERY strange - unfortunately I don't have AIX where I'm.
I assume you've already checked for any 'invisiable' characters leading to the closing 'EOF' and to the openning 'EOF'.

This is a wild guess, but I'd try using a single character say '!' instead of 'EOF' - I'm grasping for straws, but.... This is something extremely basic for ANY shell.

I have absolutely no problem running this in ksh93 on AIX version 4...

$which ksh93
/usr/bin/ksh93
$ksh93
$cat << EOF
> testing 123
> EOF
testing 123
$echo $0
ksh93
$