Professional Bash scripting: automating Linux administration
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Lesson 7 of 12 · Structuring your scripts

Here-docs, here-strings and generated files: configuration templates and atomic writes

40 min Rocky Linux 9

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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