我喜欢这种方法，因为它简洁、易读，而且在缩进的脚本中表现得很好:

<<-End_of_file >file
→       foo bar
End_of_file

其中→为制表符。

我喜欢这种方法，因为它简洁、易读，而且在缩进的脚本中表现得很好:

<<-End_of_file >file
→       foo bar
End_of_file

其中→为制表符。

当需要root权限时

当目标文件需要root权限时，使用|sudo tee而不是>:

cat << 'EOF' |sudo tee /tmp/yourprotectedfilehere
The variable $FOO will *not* be interpreted.
EOF

cat << "EOF" |sudo tee /tmp/yourprotectedfilehere
The variable $FOO *will* be interpreted.
EOF

对于那些寻找纯bash解决方案(或需要速度)的人来说，这里有一个简单的解决方案，没有cat:

# here-doc tab indented
{ read -r -d '' || printf >file '%s' "$REPLY"; } <<-EOF
        foo bar
EOF

或简单的“mycat”函数(并避免在环境中留下REPLY):

mycat() {
  local REPLY
  read -r -d '' || printf '%s' "$REPLY"
}
mycat >file <<-EOF
        foo bar
EOF

快速比较“mycat”vs OS cat(1000循环>/dev/null在我的OSX笔记本电脑上):

mycat:
real    0m1.507s
user    0m0.108s
sys     0m0.488s

OS cat:
real    0m4.082s
user    0m0.716s
sys     0m1.808s

注意:mycat不处理文件参数，它只处理“将heredoc写入文件”的问题。

注意:

以下是本主题中其他答案的浓缩和组织，尤其是Stefan Lasiewski和Serge Stroobandt的优秀作品 Lasiewski和我推荐高级bash脚本编写指南中的Ch 19 (Here Documents)

问题(如何在bash脚本中将here文档(又名heredoc)写入文件?)有(至少)3个主要的独立维度或子问题:

要覆盖现有文件、追加到现有文件还是写入新文件? 您的用户或其他用户(例如root)拥有该文件吗? 您是想按字面意思写heredoc的内容，还是让bash在heredoc内解释变量引用?

(还有其他我认为不重要的方面/子问题。考虑编辑这个答案来添加它们!)下面是上面列出的问题的一些更重要的维度组合，使用各种不同的分隔标识符——关于EOF没有什么神圣的，只要确保你用作分隔标识符的字符串没有出现在你的heredoc中:

To overwrite an existing file (or write to a new file) that you own, substituting variable references inside the heredoc: cat << EOF > /path/to/your/file This line will write to the file. ${THIS} will also write to the file, with the variable contents substituted. EOF To append an existing file (or write to a new file) that you own, substituting variable references inside the heredoc: cat << FOE >> /path/to/your/file This line will write to the file. ${THIS} will also write to the file, with the variable contents substituted. FOE To overwrite an existing file (or write to a new file) that you own, with the literal contents of the heredoc: cat << 'END_OF_FILE' > /path/to/your/file This line will write to the file. ${THIS} will also write to the file, without the variable contents substituted. END_OF_FILE To append an existing file (or write to a new file) that you own, with the literal contents of the heredoc: cat << 'eof' >> /path/to/your/file This line will write to the file. ${THIS} will also write to the file, without the variable contents substituted. eof To overwrite an existing file (or write to a new file) owned by root, substituting variable references inside the heredoc: cat << until_it_ends | sudo tee /path/to/your/file This line will write to the file. ${THIS} will also write to the file, with the variable contents substituted. until_it_ends To append an existing file (or write to a new file) owned by user=foo, with the literal contents of the heredoc: cat << 'Screw_you_Foo' | sudo -u foo tee -a /path/to/your/file This line will write to the file. ${THIS} will also write to the file, without the variable contents substituted. Screw_you_Foo

对于将来可能遇到这个问题的人，下面的格式是有效的:

(cat <<- _EOF_
        LogFile /var/log/clamd.log
        LogTime yes
        DatabaseDirectory /var/lib/clamav
        LocalSocket /tmp/clamd.socket
        TCPAddr 127.0.0.1
        SelfCheck 1020
        ScanPDF yes
        _EOF_
) > /etc/clamd.conf