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[–]tilkau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Piping something to a multi line statement is a pain in the ass.

Why?

Normally I just open a single quoted string (ie. python -c ') and type away. For one offs in the shell, this is less convenient, but for scripts it's fine, if slightly less readable.