semi-colon is a command terminator in bash. Also single quotes(e.g. Note: Although backticks (`) are a type of quotes linguistically, they don't actually "quote" anything in bash.
The closing limit string , on the final line of a here document, must start in the first character position. Echo statement with a special character ; . Let us review how to use single quote and double quote inside a shell script.
A rarely used bash-specific form of quoting for localization support. The ending single quote is necessary and the subshell executes just fine otherwise.
They're the old Bourne syntax for command substitution. It is shown earlier that double quote and dollar symbol can’t print within a string enclosed by double quotation. bash$ bash -c 'lsof -a -p $$ -d0' << EOF > EOF lsof 1213 bozo 0r REG 3,5 0 30386 /tmp/t1213-0-sh (deleted) Some utilities will not work inside a here document . The quotes around the token prevent variable expansion inside document. ‘EOF’) or double quotes(e.g. Even a plain sudo removes most variables from the environment. In this example, a text data with double quotes and dollar sign is used. Would really appreciate a little feedback and help. So, the backslash is added in front of the double quotes and dollar symbol to print these. The closing limit string , on the final line of a here document, must start in the first character position. Following example displays an echo statement without any special character. Create a bash file named escape.sh, and add the following code. Sounds like you simply want to output the one variable to the file. bash$ bash -c 'lsof -a -p $$ -d0' << EOF > EOF lsof 1213 bozo 0r REG 3,5 0 30386 /tmp/t1213-0-sh (deleted) Some utilities will not work inside a here document . I am little confused and not sure, how to add the cat << EOF style to my script. bash: .bashrc: line 97: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)' bash: .bashrc: line 130: syntax error: unexpected end of file What is that I'm doing wrong? $ echo The Geek Stuff The Geek Stuff. “EOF”) can be used as stop tokens The minus trims leading spaces or blanks. Where quoting in bash is used to make data (partly) literal, backticks do something entirely different. sudo su -, which is a complicated way of writing sudo -i, constructs a pristine environment.That's the point of a login shell.