printf in bash

[Peter]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Neil Watson wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 08:25:46PM +0300, Peter wrote:
>> plp at plp:~$ cat <<END
>>> This is line two with quotations ""
>>> END
>
> What about quoting the string so that no special characters are
> interpreted?  The eqiuvilant of using single quotes?

What about it ? Special characters are not interpreted in the 
here-document. They are interpreted by the shell when and if this here 
document appears on a shell command line later. E.g.:

Q=`cat <<END
This is a line with a "$variable" in it
EOF`

echo $Q
echo "$Q"

Peter
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