in reply to RFC Using PERL HEREDOC script within bash
What is that buying you? Those scripts could just be perl scripts for what it's worth. Why the extra rigamarole to put bash/ksh into the process. If you've got a particular use case that shows why you'd actually *want* to do that, it would help your post.
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