On 01/14/2022 08:59 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 1/14/22 17:18, H wrote: >> Using a bash script I want to echo several strings to a file. The echo >> statement, however, is in a function and thus indented but I do /not/ want >> the strings echoed indented in the new file. Is this doable? > > > > I don't think you can do that for strings passed as arguments, but you can do > that with strings that are here-documents: > https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/bash-cookbook/0596526784/ch03s04.html > > So, maybe: > > f () { > cat > file.txt <<-'EOF' > # this is a test > a=123 > b=456 > EOF > } > > > (Note that those lines need to be indented with tabs. None of my email > editors will compose in plain text at the moment, oddly, so those are being > converted to spaces) > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Thank you, will try that. I use Geany as my editor and for some reason it changes all tabs to spaces when I edit a bash script... Not sure why? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
