[TriLUG] solved: HERE document question

[Kevin Hunter]

At 8:56am -0600 Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> Sorry about the long lines - I expect screens to be at least 132 chars.

Bad expectation.  Generally, for interoperability with other people, 
editors, and any odd or end of tools, assume 80 chars.  Has been the de 
facto standard since the days of punch cards or before.  For instance, 
I'm a poor grad student with but a small laptop screen.  132 characters 
doesn't wrap so well, and scrolling was obnoxious.

> I have the correct working file output by the HERE document
> statements, followed by the code that generated it.

I'm confused.  So you have it working the way you want now?  Since you 
pasted it, I'm assuming not.  Notes:

- You don't need multiple EOFs.  The point of EOFs is to make blocks of 
output easier to read in the source code, and to allow grouping of 
multiple outputs into a single one.

- If I've understood correctly what you want, the only real trick you 
need is recognizing how to use an escaping backslash.  (Lines 29 and 30)

- Since you're generating a script with a script, consider a adding a 
WARNING line as a comment.  You'll thank yourself in 6 months when you 
need to look at this script again.

Other than that, it looks like you already had it working.  Example 
changes to illustrate what you might have done:

http://dpaste.com/223883/

Kevin