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Old 02-28-2006
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What dose ____EOF____ mean ?

I found in many Scripts this word " _______EOF________ " may any body Please tell me what dose it mean ??
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In its simplest sense, EOF means end-of-file. You must have known this for sure.

___EOF___ could be the marker in a here-document, used within a shell script.

Read through the man pages of sh to know what a here document is.
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