How can I write a heredoc to a file in Bash script?

Question

How can I write a here document to a file in Bash script?

Answer 1

If you want to keep the heredoc indented for readability:

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

The built-in method for supporting indented heredoc in Bash only supports leading tabs, not spaces.

Perl can be replaced with awk to save a few characters, but the Perl one is probably easier to remember if you know basic regular expressions.