Re: Newbie question: How to use ftpd and telnetd?

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at cygnus dot com>]

Neil Zanella wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > # The external services are typically called via `tcpd' for
> >                                                  ^
> > # The external services are typically called via 'tcpd' for
> 
> This may sound like a silly question but how does that change things?
> I thought anything between a pound sign and a newline character would
> be ignored by the bash shell when running a script.

This is inside of a here script. The standard behaviour of sh is
to do command and variable substitution inside of here scripts.
This is very helpful to create context dependent output for example.
Try:

$ cat << EOF
? #!$SHELL
? EOF
#!/bin/bash
$  

You can switch that behaviour off by double quoting the end of script
delimiter:

$ cat << "EOF"
? #!$SHELL
? EOF
#!$SHELL
$ 

Corinna

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