EOT is an ASCII character that historically signalled the end of a message (and is a special character in UNIX terminals that means end of stream when it appears in user input only), but it CAN appear in files, so using it in C to signal the end of a file would be a terrible idea when reading binary files!
EOT is actually an ASCII control character that, by convention on Unix systems, generates the End-Of-File indication to the program reading terminal input, when the terminal settings had not been otherwise altered.
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Using EOT to echo multiple lines in a file [duplicate] Ask Question Asked 3 years, 7 months ago Modified 3 years, 7 months ago
Why should EOT be recognized as the end of input? Try mailx -s "test email" cloud << EOT to recognize the end of the heredoc.
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The EOT control code doesn't actually show up in the data stream the application sees, it's interpreted by the terminal which signals an end-of-file condition to the application when it encounters ^D.
I'm a little confusing about the tape options in Unix EOM (end of mark) EOT (end of tape) PEOT (physical end of tape) As I understand EOM is the the end of last file, but I have also some free t...
Is this correct? Furthermore, I think it says "execute the following script and it "pass << EOT" to say get all the following text/lines as the script code, it will end with an "EOT". If the previous interpretation is correct EOT is End Of Transmission and can be any word (is just a label)?