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