Herestrings in the shell

Like heredoc syntax there is also herestring.

For a heredoc you'd do something like

cat >file <<EOF
This is a file
all this text will get written to the file
This dir contains
$(ls)
EOF

or, if expansion (command, parameter and arithmetic) isn't wanted, quote the word at the start: cat >file <<"EOF".

Herestrings are a quicker way than using echo and piping to a command -- for instance to get torrent info I can do ssh server deluge --ui=console <<<info rather than echo info | ssh server deluge --ui=console.