如果你想保持heredoc的缩进可读性:

$ perl -pe 's/^\s*//' << EOF
     line 1
     line 2
EOF

Bash中支持缩进式heredoc的内置方法只支持开头制表符，不支持空格。

Perl可以用awk代替，以节省几个字符，但是如果您知道基本的正则表达式，Perl可能更容易记住。

我喜欢这种方法，因为它简洁、易读，而且在缩进的脚本中表现得很好:

<<-End_of_file >file
→       foo bar
End_of_file

其中→为制表符。

使用tee代替cat和I/O重定向可能会有用:

tee newfile <<EOF
line 1
line 2
line 3
EOF

它更简洁，而且与重定向操作符不同，如果您需要以根权限写入文件，它可以与sudo结合使用。

当需要root权限时

当目标文件需要root权限时，使用|sudo tee而不是>:

cat << 'EOF' |sudo tee /tmp/yourprotectedfilehere
The variable $FOO will *not* be interpreted.
EOF

cat << "EOF" |sudo tee /tmp/yourprotectedfilehere
The variable $FOO *will* be interpreted.
EOF

注意:

以下是本主题中其他答案的浓缩和组织，尤其是Stefan Lasiewski和Serge Stroobandt的优秀作品 Lasiewski和我推荐高级bash脚本编写指南中的Ch 19 (Here Documents)

问题(如何在bash脚本中将here文档(又名heredoc)写入文件?)有(至少)3个主要的独立维度或子问题:

要覆盖现有文件、追加到现有文件还是写入新文件? 您的用户或其他用户(例如root)拥有该文件吗? 您是想按字面意思写heredoc的内容，还是让bash在heredoc内解释变量引用?

(还有其他我认为不重要的方面/子问题。考虑编辑这个答案来添加它们!)下面是上面列出的问题的一些更重要的维度组合，使用各种不同的分隔标识符——关于EOF没有什么神圣的，只要确保你用作分隔标识符的字符串没有出现在你的heredoc中:

To overwrite an existing file (or write to a new file) that you own, substituting variable references inside the heredoc: cat << EOF > /path/to/your/file This line will write to the file. ${THIS} will also write to the file, with the variable contents substituted. EOF To append an existing file (or write to a new file) that you own, substituting variable references inside the heredoc: cat << FOE >> /path/to/your/file This line will write to the file. ${THIS} will also write to the file, with the variable contents substituted. FOE To overwrite an existing file (or write to a new file) that you own, with the literal contents of the heredoc: cat << 'END_OF_FILE' > /path/to/your/file This line will write to the file. ${THIS} will also write to the file, without the variable contents substituted. END_OF_FILE To append an existing file (or write to a new file) that you own, with the literal contents of the heredoc: cat << 'eof' >> /path/to/your/file This line will write to the file. ${THIS} will also write to the file, without the variable contents substituted. eof To overwrite an existing file (or write to a new file) owned by root, substituting variable references inside the heredoc: cat << until_it_ends | sudo tee /path/to/your/file This line will write to the file. ${THIS} will also write to the file, with the variable contents substituted. until_it_ends To append an existing file (or write to a new file) owned by user=foo, with the literal contents of the heredoc: cat << 'Screw_you_Foo' | sudo -u foo tee -a /path/to/your/file This line will write to the file. ${THIS} will also write to the file, without the variable contents substituted. Screw_you_Foo

根据@Livven的回答，这里有一些有用的组合。

variable substitution, leading tab retained, overwrite file, echo to stdout tee /path/to/file <<EOF ${variable} EOF no variable substitution, leading tab retained, overwrite file, echo to stdout tee /path/to/file <<'EOF' ${variable} EOF variable substitution, leading tab removed, overwrite file, echo to stdout tee /path/to/file <<-EOF ${variable} EOF variable substitution, leading tab retained, append to file, echo to stdout tee -a /path/to/file <<EOF ${variable} EOF variable substitution, leading tab retained, overwrite file, no echo to stdout tee /path/to/file <<EOF >/dev/null ${variable} EOF the above can be combined with sudo as well sudo -u USER tee /path/to/file <<EOF ${variable} EOF