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)
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