[TriLUG] solved: HERE document question

[Shane O.]

I'm taking solace in the fact that my lack of understanding of the answer is
strongly rooted in my lack of understanding of the original question.

Glad you got your fix -

Shane O.

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, Kevin Hunter wrote:
>
>  Since no one seems to be stepping forward with a "Here's your answer,
>> Joe!", may I suggest you post your script in it's entirety to a pastebin
>> service, and let folks take a look.  Explanations are great, but sometimes
>> there's no substitute for code.
>>
>
> I did it by brute force. I needed the generating script to sometimes
> substitute the value of a variable in the HERE document. You do this with
>
> partition=/dev/sda1
> cat > $filename <<EOF
>        echo "$partition"
> EOF
>
> when $filename will contain
>
> echo "/dev/sda1"
>
> Sometimes I needed the name of the variable, and not the value, in the HERE
> document. You do this with
>
> cat $filename> <<\EOF
>        if [ "$count" = "0" ]
> EOF
>
> when $filename will contain
>
>        if [ "$count" = "0" ]
>
> I couldn't find any finer control of whether a variable would be
> substituted or written as is. I wrote the generating script to piecewise
> output strings as 5 separate HERE documents (some with variables substituted
> and some wrtten literally) which were cat'ed into the final file.
>
> Thanks Joe
>
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