bash

I love simple CLI tools and am a big fan of the Unix philosophy. Recently I came across The Dam, a public Unix server that implements a clever tool they termed suc - the Simple Unix Chat.

I’ve recently needed to append several lines of data to a SAS data step that I collected and built via a shell script. For search-and-replace in bash I typically use sed, but this time I ran into a problem - sed does not like multiline shell variables.