Solved How to prevent linefeed at end of heredoc?

[balanga]

If I run this script

cat <<EOF >here-test
abc
xyz
123
EOF

I get a linefeed after 123.

Is there any way to prevent this?

 

[richardtoohey2]

Looks like you have to feed it through something else to strip it:

Is there something similar to echo -n in heredoc (EOF)?

I'm writing on a huge script-factory script generating a lot of maintenance scripts for my servers. Until now I write some lines which need to be written in one line with echo -ne e.g. echo -n "i...

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[hruodr]

Then something like:

{
echo abc
echo xyz
echo -n 123
} | cat >here-test

???

 

[yjqg6666]

I would prefer this:

cat <<EOF >here-test
abc
xyz
EOF
echo -n “123” >> here-test