Questions tagged [here-string]
A special, more compact form of the here-document consisting of <<< followed by a single WORD.
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SSH tty session as a Here String
At my job, the only way that I can switch users is by doing the following:
sudo su - *USER*
In order to run multiple commands as the user (in a script or something), I use here strings and here docs:...
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What is really happening in this command?
When I use the command cat <<< Hey > text.txt text.txt I expect it to write "Hey" in the file text.txt and then display the file. But there is no output. How is bash interpreting it ...
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Ubuntu - How do I pass JSON string to herestring?
Update
I noticed that I am able to pass JSON with this command
command -j /dev/stdin <<< '{"key":"value"}'
However, it does not work if I call it through SSH.
ssh {target} 'command -j /...
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The need for $1 and $2 for comparison with an here-string
This is a follow up to this question;
I don't know why but I keep misunderstanding the following code, although I try very hard to understand it:
function read_and_verify {
read -p "$1:" tmp1
...
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What is the end of here string?
It seemed to me that the end of a here string is newline. I realize I am wrong:
$ cat <<< hello world
cat: world: No such file or directory
What can signify the end of a here string?
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What are the differences between here document and here string in their purposes? [closed]
In bash, it seems to me both here document and here string can be used for providing strings as stdin inputs. here document may provide an extra features to specify delimiter, which I am not sure if ...
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Are Here-Strings available in ksh88?
I wanted to extract 3 words from a variable in 3 different variables in ksh script. I used this line on ksh93 and it worked fine:
read A B C <<< $line
Got this error for the above command ...
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Cannot create temp file for here-document: Permission denied
[Note: This similar Q concerns the same bash error message. It's been marked a duplicate of this other Q. But because I found a very different source for this error, I will answer my own Q below.]
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Redirect content under a new line (without further syntax or arguments)
I tried these ways to append content to a file:
printf "\nsource ~/script.sh" >> /etc/bash.bashrc
echo -e "\nsource ~/script.sh" >> /etc/bash.bashrc
cat >> "/etc/bash.bashrc" <&...
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Why does wc <<<“$string” show a one-byte-longer length than printf “$string” | wc?
Accidentially, I found out that wc counts differently depending on how it gets the input from bash:
$ s='hello'
$ wc -m <<<"$s"
6
$ wc -c <<<"$s"
6
$ printf '%s' "$s" | wc -m
5
$ ...
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From multiline heredocument to a uniline herestring, with line breaks
I have this multilinie heredocument which I desire to translate into a uniline herestring:
cat <<-"PHPCONF" > /etc/php/*/zz_overrides.ini
[PHP]
post_max_size = 200M
upload_max_filesize ...
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How to read a mapfile
I have some code similar to this:
while read -r col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 col6 col7 col8 TRASH; do
echo -e "${col1}\n${col2}\n${col3}\n${col4}\n${col5}\n${col6}\n"
done< <(ll | tail -n+...
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Append herestring data to a file, if it doesn't already exist in that file (all in one line)
What will be an "elegant" one-line way to append a single line of data into the end of a file, with herestring, if this exact data isn't already in that file?
This is my herestring append pattern:
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How can pipe producer tell pipe consumer it has reached 'End of File'?" (un-named-pipe, not named-pipe)
I have an application which requires a producer to send filenames to a consumer, and have producer indicate to the consumer when the last filename has been sent and the end of file has been reached.
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Variable not interpreted with 'EOF'
This is my script:
var="lalallalal"
tee file.tex <<'EOF'
text \\ text \\
$var
EOF
Need to use 'EOF' (with quotes) because I can not use double slash (//) otherwise.
However, if I use the ...
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Single line heredocument - Possible in Bash?
I desire to run a cat heredocument in a single row instead the natural syntax of 3 rows (opener, content, and delimiter). My need to do so is mostly aesthetic as the redirected content aimed aimed to ...
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What is the advantage of using bash -c over using a here string?
Is there any real benefit to using bash -c 'some command' over using bash <<< 'some command'
They seem to achieve the same effect.
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Diff between a string and a file
Basically I want to check the difference of the same file before and after a sed
Tried to run:
diff /opt/postTrades.sh <<< $(sed 's/1\ MIN/10\ MIN/g' /opt/postTrades.sh)
and
diff <<&...
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Elegant way of diff'ing two variables?
I have $a and $b. I want to run diff on those.
The best I have come up with is:
diff <(cat <<<"$a") <(cat <<<"$b")
But I have the district feeling that I am missing a clever ...
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Assign a value to a variable inside a loop
I have this code :
HOSTS="host1 host2"
For hostname in ${HOSTS} ;
do ssh -tt ${USERNAME}@${hostname} << EOF
HOSTSN="test"
echo ${HOSTSN}
exit
EOF
Done
The variable HOSTSN is empty, can ...
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unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)'
I'm simply trying to get the output from a sql statement and store in bash variable. I am getting " unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)' " error.
I don't see what i'm doing wrong. Why am I ...
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ksh type with herestring
I wanted to use Here String in conjunction with custom type in KSH. Unfortunately I am not able to tell what I am doing wrong.
#!/bin/ksh
typeset -T Type_t=(
typeset string='aaa'
function fc {
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Why does cut fail with bash and not zsh?
I create a file with tab-delimited fields.
echo foo$'\t'bar$'\t'baz$'\n'foo$'\t'bar$'\t'baz > input
I have the following script named zsh.sh
#!/usr/bin/env zsh
while read line; do
<<&...
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Use variables in here-string
To feed input to an interactive script, I've been using a here-string:
script <<< $'1 2\n3 4\n5 6\nq'
This effectively enters
1 2
3 4
5 6
q
into the script. But how can I replace one of ...
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Extract lines from text with string as input
How can extract lines that match the regexp string ^li from the text (not a file) below using sed or something?
linux
loan
litmus
launch
I tried grep but I couldn't find a way to search within ...
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Openssl generate invalid websocket security code
I need to write websocket server on GAWK. And server must handle user's Sec-WebSocket-Key by following algorithm (from RFC):
Concat key with 258EAFA5-E914-47DA-95CA-C5AB0DC85B11
Take sha-1 in binary ...
