More research... On 05/05/2017 04:35 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 05/05/2017 03:33 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Fri, May 05, 2017, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> I thought this worked. Many web pages tell you it works. But bash is >>> ignoring tabs in my here docs. Worst, where there are two tabs, it is >>> functioning as a command expand in bash, where all files in the current >>> directory are listed to complete the command. >>> >> .... >> >> I suspect that the shell is attempting to expand the '*' >> character. You need to escape the delimiter with a backslash >> to keep the shell from expanding: > > I tried that earlier, and \EOF did not help. And I have env variables > in the here doc I need replaced. If I had to SED the file as a second > step, I would have. But like I said, \EOF did not make a difference. I just did a test where I created a file, xit, with the here document in it and ran it with ./xit This way, the tabs remained. So the 'problem' is when I am pasting the same lines (with tabs) into the terminal window. There bash is interpreting the tabs and not feeding them into the here doc processing. > > I just tried this on a Fedora system, and got the same problem, yet: > > http://stackoverflow.com/documentation/bash/655/here-documents-and-here-strings#t=201705051749422129426 > > > Gives examples with tabs in it. As does: > > http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/here-docs.html > > Oh, this is done through cut-n-paste. Cut from my web howto into a > terminal window (screen usbtty into the Centos server). Is Terminal > suppressing the tabs from the clipboard? I am using Xfce. > > >> >> cat <<\EOF > 00-init.conf ... >> ... >> EOF >> >>> cat <<EOF>00-init.conf || exit 1 >>> ServerAdmin $admin_email >>> ServerName $your_host_tld >>> <VirtualHost *:80> >>> <Directory "/var/www/html"> >>> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks >>> AllowOverride None >>> Require all granted >>> </Directory> >>> </VirtualHost> >>> <VirtualHost *:443> >>> SSLEngine On >>> SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/$your_host_tld.crt >>> SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/$your_host_tld.key >>> <Directory "/var/www/html"> >>> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks >>> AllowOverride None >>> Require all granted >>> </Directory> >>> </VirtualHost> >>> EOF >>> >>> thanks >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >