On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 10:20 AM Derrick Stolee <stolee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 6/25/2018 3:38 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > While I don't use substitutions in this patch, I do use them in later > patches. Here is the final version of this method: > > midx_read_expect () { > NUM_PACKS=$1 > NUM_OBJECTS=$2 > NUM_CHUNKS=$3 > EXTRA_CHUNKS="$5" > cat >expect <<-\EOF > header: 4d494458 1 $NUM_CHUNKS $NUM_PACKS > chunks: pack_names oid_fanout oid_lookup > object_offsets$EXTRA_CHUNKS > num_objects: $NUM_OBJECTS > packs: > EOF > > Using <<-\EOF causes these substitutions to fail. Is there a different > way I should construct this method? When you need to interpolate variables into the here-doc, use <<-EOF; when you don't, use <<-\EOF.