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How to use a here documents to write data to a file in bash script

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Nov 16, 2017

A here document is nothing but I/O redirection that tells the bash shell to read input from the current source until a line containing only delimiter is seen. How do I use a heredoc redirection feature (here documents) to write data to a file in my bash shell scripts?

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