On 2017-04-21 08:23, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > Tim Chase writes: >> Bash: >> cat <<EOT >> "single and double" with \ and / >> EOT >> >> PS: yes, bash's does interpolate strings, so you still need to do >> escaping within, but the arbitrary-user-specified-delimiter idea >> still holds. > > If you put any quote characters in the initial EOT, it doesn't. > Quote removal on the EOT determines the actual EOT at the end. > > cat <<"EOT" > Not expanding any $amount here > EOT
Huh, I just tested it and you're 100% right on that. But I just re-read over that section of my `man bash` page and don't see anything that stands out as detailing this. Is there something I missed in the docs? Thanks for this little tip (filing away for future use) -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list