Re: Another 'What's the diff Q" (LDo will like this)

On 2024-09-17, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:

Perhaps you misread my post.  Perhaps you misread "superiority" as
"inferiority".  I admit that the two words do look pretty similar.

Here is a superiority. Because the <<< construct uses the ordinary
expansions in a command line, it is useful in a situation in which we
have an existing command that takes some complicated expansion as an
argument, and we would like to use that as standard input. The <<<
construct lets us do that without having to convert everything in that
complicated expansion into a here document.

It's not that we can't convert that content it to a here document, but
it takes work, and could introduce a bug.

So it's just tradeoffs. Some aspect that is an advantage in one
situation is a disadvantage in another, and so it goes.

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