On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 8:35 PM, Peter Passchier <pe...@passchier.net> wrote:
> On 06/25/2018 12:27 AM, Robert Elz wrote: > > That's not the real issue - rather it is that a here doc is presented to > the > > command beng run as a file descrptior > > OK, thanks, that makes sense. In the case of a here-variable, that would > definitely be the case then. > > Peter > > > Also, in practice, there is also a good chance that the tempfiles are written on a tmpfs filesystem and thus memory, and even if it is not the case with all the caching done by the OS there is a chance your data will never actually be written on the disk.
