On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:34 PM, C Anthony Risinger <[email protected]> wrote: > > store heredoc in variable (best of both examples, at cost of `cat` > call and subshell): > > opts=$(cat <<EOF > ... > EOF)
... and something else just for grins :-) as i didn't think of it until right after i sent my msg ... --------------------------------- read -rd $'\0' opts <<EOF grub=A nice long explantaion about grub :-) syslinux=And that's why we are teh awesome! insert_here=I'm just along for the ride EOF echo "$opts" --------------------------------- that will store the entire heredoc into $opts (remember to use quotes for output of course); since null is used as a delimiter, and bash variables/strings are not capable of storing null, this guarantees the entire doc will be in `$opts`. it really is ridiculous what bash is capable of ... anyways, carry on, nothing to see here. C Anthony
