What does <<< mean in bash (ie. in socat … <<<“string” >output-filename)
问题 I am trying to understand a codebase where I see a line like below: socat /tmp/haproxy - <<< "show servers state" > /var/state/haproxy/global What is socat doing here? What does <<< mean? 回答1: The socat command creates a bidirectional pipe between the file /tmp/haproxy and stdin which is expressed by passing - to socat . In fact it appends stdin to /tmp/haproxy and writes the resulting output to /var/state/haproxy/global <<< is a bash feature, a so called here string. It passes the string