Re: Echoing statements in bash script

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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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