[CentOS] tabs ignored in here document

[Robert Moskowitz]

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 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
>>
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