From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:54:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Correction for post-receive-email
Message-ID: <4705FBAA.50302@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <200710050913.58835.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Andy Parkins wrote:
> On Friday 2007 October 05, Eric Mertens wrote:
> 
>> I noticed that my mutt wasn't correctly detecting the signature block
>> on the end of the automated emails I was receiving from the script in
>> contrib. I've made this trivial change in my local copy of the script,
>> but I figured that if I was going to be modifying the source code I
>> should share my changes.
> 
> That change has been in my pending queue for a while.  It's technically 
> correct, but I've never submitted it.  The reason I haven't is that it adds 
> trailing whitespace.
> 
> Perhaps one of the shell gurus can offer a nicer way of having a trailing 
> space be output in a heredoc that doesn't add a trailing space in the source 
> script?
> 

space=' '

cat << EOF
--$space
EOF

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