I looked at the example of someone trying to achieve what I wanted, but it didn't work for me:-
Any suggestions about how to get a tab in a heredoc?
How do you type a tab in a bash here-document?
The definition of a here-document is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_document How can you type a tab in a here-document? Such as this: cat > prices.txt << EOF coffee\t$1.50 tea\t...
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Any suggestions about how to get a tab in a heredoc?