Lesson 7 of 12 · Structuring your scripts
Here-docs, here-strings and generated files: configuration templates and atomic writes
Objective
Have your scripts write complete files — nginx configuration, systemd unit, installation script, help page — while controlling precisely what is replaced at generation time and what stays literal, then install those files atomically, so that no service ever reads a half-written file.
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