On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 03:21:42PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 06:50:57AM -0600, Scott wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 05:49:27AM -0500, William Harrington wrote: > > > > > > If you do cat << EOF > > > > > > Then any variables or commands in backticks are evaluated > > > > > > If you do cat << "EOF" > > > > > > Then variables or commands in backticks are not evaluated. > > > > > > Example: > > > > > > cat > test << EOF > > > TEST=$PWD > > > EOF > > > > > > cat > test "EOF" > > > TEST=$PWD > > > EOF > > > > > > > `huh?` > > > > Scott Swanson > > > > Did you try it ? It does exactly what William stated. >
Sorry, it was before 1st cup of coffee and I didn't see any backticks in the example. When I put the missing << chars in the second example, then it did work and I see what he is meaning. Scott Swanson -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
