Re: [CentOS] Problems with my simple write conf files method

On 02/21/2017 09:27 PM, Ian Mortimer wrote:

On Tue, 2017-02-21 at 10:50 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

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cat <<EOF>/usr/share/postfixadmin/config.local.php || exit 1

<?php $CONF['database_type'] = 'mysqli'; $CONF['database_user'] = 'postfix'; $CONF['database_password'] = 'xyz'; $CONF['database_name'] = 'postfix'; $CONF['configured'] = true; ?>

EOF

KMs method of escaping every $ in the here document works but a simpler method is to escape the EOF. That tells the shell not to do variable expansion in the document:

cat <<\EOF>/usr/share/postfixadmin/config.local.php || exit 1

Thank you. I actually had problems with changes to /etc/postfix/master.cf where I have things like ${sender} that do not work as ${sender}. So mass changes of $ to $ did not always work. :)

Do I end with 'EOF' or \EOF'?