<<-EOF将忽略起止内容中前面的tab制表符,而<<EOF将不会,比如:
cat <<EOF
Line 1
Line 2
EOF
will produce
Line 1
Line 2
while
cat <<-EOF
Line 1
Line 2
EOF
produces
Line 1
Line 2
The format of here-documents is:
<<[-]word
here-document
delimiter
No parameter expansion, command substitution, arithmetic expansion, or filename expansion
is performed on word. If any characters in word are quoted, the delimiter is the
result of quote removal on word, and the lines in the here-document are not expanded.
If word is unquoted, all lines of the here-document are subjected to parameter expansion,
command substitution, and arithmetic expansion. In the latter case, the character sequence
\newline is ignored, and ‘\’ must be used to quote the characters ‘\’, ‘$’, and ‘‘’.
If the redirection operator is ‘<<-’, then all leading tab characters are stripped from input
lines and the line containing delimiter. This allows here-documents within shell scripts to
be indented in a natural fashion.