Tim Chase writes: > A number of tools use a custom quote-string: > > Bash: > > cat <<EOT > "single and double" with \ and / > EOT
[snip] > PS: yes, bash's does interpolate strings, so you still need to do > escaping within, but the arbitrary-user-specified-delimiter idea still > holds. If you put any quote characters in the initial EOT, it doesn't. Quote removal on the EOT determines the actual EOT at the end. cat <<"EOT" Not expanding any $amount here EOT -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list