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I was wondering if there any way to create a here document in bash to output to a file within a script, problem is that in this config file I am trying to output some variables that start with $ I want to substitute, while others I do not.

Let me illustrate: 

cat >> /opt/apache2/sites-available/$WEBSITENAME <<END-OF-FILE ServerName $WEBSITENAME #This I want to replace <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName $WEBSITENAME # And this ServerAlias *.xxx.com RedirectMatch /(.*) https://$WEBSITENAME/$1 # But not the $1 here CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined </VirtualHost>

This is one of many examples, I have many other config files that I want to substitute variables in, but they themselves have many variables of their own, so I don't want to substitute those.

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You can escape the $, forcing bash to treat it as a literal character rather than the start of a variable.

You do this with the backslash (\) character.

So use this,:

RedirectMatch /(.*) https://$WEBSITENAME/\$1

in the here document.

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