on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:05:12AM +0100, Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:56:48PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > It would also be helpful if I could do the old trick of : > > > > cat <<EOF>foo > > <file transfer> > > EOF > > > > ...but this method performs shell expansions on the content. > > If you quote EOF, it doesn't: > > $ cat <<EOF > > $BASH_VERSION > > EOF > 2.05b.0(1)-release > $ cat <<'EOF' > > $BASH_VERSION > > EOF > $BASH_VERSION > $ cat <<"EOF" > > $BASH_VERSION > > EOF > $BASH_VERSION Ahhh.... That's _two_ things learned today. Very sweet. I still find the idea of bootstrapping a Debian system by way of uuencoded ASCII file transfers to be horribly _wrong_, but I won't complain about it. Hrm. Hrm. Yes, I suppose I could tar some large archives and do bulk transfers this way. Thanks. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Hollings: bought, paid for, but couldn't deliver the CBDTPA: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/hollings.s2048.032102.html
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