On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 12:32, Claude Jones wrote: > On Sun August 28 2005 1:23 pm, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 09:31, Claude Jones wrote: > > > On Sun August 28 2005 6:04 am, gb spam wrote: > > > > cat > /etc/sysconfig/desktop << EOF > > > > DESKTOP="KDE" > > > > DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" > > > > EOF > > > > Cat copies input to output ................ > Thanks for your explanation. I had taken Tony's suggestion and started looking > at the man bash pages. So, if I'm getting it right, the above sequence says > take what I'm about to type and redirect the text into the file 'desktop' in > the designated location, and keep doing that until I type "EOF" - the first > '>' is the redirect, and the '<<' is the entry that tells the process to > continue until it sees the sequence that immediately follows '<<', at which > point the redirect process terminates. Do I have that right? Yes, but note that it is the shell collecting the input when you use this construction, then feeding it to cat. If you just: cat >file type...type type.. control-d cat inherits your keybord as it's stdin, and a special case for tty type inputs is that control-d as the first thing after a newline generates an end-of-file as seen by the reading program (controlled by "stty"). -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
