cat > test.sh << “EOF”

When hitting enter you are presented with a blank line you can type in. All that you type will be catted to the file test.sh until there is a single line with just EOF on it. EOF has to be on the line by itself. Also make sure you are using << and not <.

You can actually substitue just about anything for “EOF” like say “stop now”. But then to close this redirection and write to the file you have to have, on a line by itself, stop now.

It still is not posting correctly. The first line should be you command, then there should be a greater than sign in front of the I and it should be a new line.

The first one did not paste correctly here is the output:

$ cat > test.sh < I am using cat as an editor
> it is simple but works
> this could be very useful
> EOF
> “EOF”
> ^C
$ cat test.sh
cat: test.sh: No such file or directory

Good stuff but the last example did not work for me. Here is what i got:


$ cat > test.sh < I am using cat as an editor
> it is simple but works
> this could be very useful
> EOF
> "EOF"
> ^C
$ cat test.sh
cat: test.sh: No such file or directory


What did I do wrong?

http://serverfault.com/questions/122364/linux-best-practices-for-hard-linking

Off the cuff – backups, content versioning software. Recall that unlike a symlink, a hard link shares the same innode and link to the data as the master but has a different file name or entry in the file table. Thus, if you delete the original file, the innode and data will still exist because the hard link still exists. That information is not removed until all link counter for the innode reaches zero. That is very different from a symbolic link where it is just a pointer to the file, it does not share the same innode. Deleting the original file does not preserve the innode or data if there is a symlink to the original file.

This was my first attempt, which produced the same result:

for file in *.jpg?;do $file |tr -d ‘?’; done

yours,
JA

I tried

for file in *.jpg?;do $(echo $file |tr -d ‘?’); done

but only get:
: command not found.jpg

Any idea why?

Thank you!
JA

My one dangling question from an earlier episode is, what is the use case for a hard link? I see hard-links sometimes, but can’t think of an example they would be preferable to a sym link.