printf in bash

Behdad Esfahbod behdad-26n5VD7DAF2Tm46uYYfjYg at public.gmane.org
Thu Jun 15 20:19:35 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 13:33 -0400, 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?


[behdad at home devel]$ cat <<END
> echo $PWD
> END
echo /home/behdad/src/redhat/pango/devel
[behdad at home devel]$ cat <<\END
> echo PWD
> END
echo PWD


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