From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: "Philip McGrath" <philip@philipmcgrath.com>
Cc: 56050@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#56050] [PATCH v2 1/2] etc/guix-install.sh: Initialize XDG base directories.
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2022 23:01:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1307ftd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99286d24-c62d-4506-b172-dbac712acf9e@www.fastmail.com> (Philip McGrath's message of "Mon, 04 Jul 2022 12:36:44 -0400")
"Philip McGrath" <philip@philipmcgrath.com> skribis:
> AFAICT, this seems to work. I think this is because of a rule I didn't know about before from the section "Here Documents" under `info "(bash)Redirections"`:
>
>> If any part of *word* is quoted, the *delimiter* is the result of
>> quote removal on *word*, and the lines in the here-document
>> are not expanded.
>
> and the beginning EOF is quoted, so it works like this:
>
> $ cat quoted-here-doc.sh
> #!/bin/sh
> cat <<"EOF" > out.sh
> export PATH="$PATH:foobar"
> EOF
> $ ./quoted-here-doc.sh
> $ cat out.sh
> export PATH="$PATH:foobar"
>
> I'm certainly no expert on shell quoting, though.
Woow, I learned something, thanks! Crazy. (I wonder what Dash does
with that, given that it doesn’t support multi-digit file descriptor
numbers for redirects…)
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-04 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-18 5:25 [bug#56050] [PATCH] home: services: environment-variables: Fix XDG base directories Philip McGrath
2022-06-22 20:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-23 21:33 ` Philip McGrath
2022-06-25 21:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-07-04 2:35 ` [bug#56050] [PATCH v2 0/2] etc/guix-install.sh: Initialize " Philip McGrath
2022-07-04 2:35 ` [bug#56050] [PATCH v2 1/2] " Philip McGrath
2022-07-04 9:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-07-04 16:36 ` Philip McGrath
2022-07-04 21:01 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-07-04 20:18 ` [bug#56050] [PATCH] home: services: environment-variables: Fix " Ludovic Courtès
2022-07-04 2:35 ` [bug#56050] [PATCH v2 2/2] etc/guix-install.sh: Check for profile from 'guix home' Philip McGrath
2022-07-04 9:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-07-12 6:44 ` Andrew Tropin
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