Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> writes: > I think you're all missing what Clark's question actually is. Consider > this: > > imadev:~$ cat <<\EOF >> $PATH >> EOF > $PATH > > The use of a backslash in front of one of the characters of the > here-document's sentinel word is considered "quoting". And because the > sentinel word is "quoted", parameter expansions in the body are not done.
The backslash does not quote the here document, it quotes the first character of the delimiter. A (unquoted) backslash always quotes exactly one character. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
