I created a simple shell script:
#!/bin/bash
clear
echo "Starting Script now....."
echo "Write the info below to a new file in same directory...."
echo "name: John Smith"
echo "email: [email protected]
echo "gender: M"
echo
echo
echo "File is done"
I want to create a file in the same directory with the Name, email, and gender details. I don't want to do it from the command line like this:
#./script.sh > my.config
I'd rather do it from within the file itself.
Heredoc.
cat > somefile << EOF
name: ...
...
EOF
You can just do:
#!/bin/bash
clear
echo "Starting Script now....."
echo "Write the info below to a new file in same directory...."
# save stdout to fd 3; redirect fd 1 to my.config
exec 3>&1 >my.config
echo "name: John Smith"
echo "email: [email protected]"
echo "gender: M"
echo
echo
# restore original stdout to fd 1
exec >&3-
echo "File is done"
Well, just add >> yourfile to the echo lines you want to write :
echo "name: John Smith" >> yourfile
echo "email: [email protected]" >> yourfile
echo "gender: M" >> yourfile
For all your echo "name:John Smith" lines add a > $1 (ie first parameter passed in to the script).
Then run the script like ./script.sh my.config.
Or you could replace the $1 with my.config and just run ./script.sh.
