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Asked: 2026-06-11T06:49:18+00:00

I want to include some HTML in a shell script. This is what I’ve

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I want to include some HTML in a shell script. This is what I’ve tried:

(
echo "<html> 
<head>
<title>HTML E-mail</title>
</head>
<body>
<p style="font-family:verdana;color:red;">
This text is in Verdana and red</p>
</body>
</html>"
)>pkll.htm

However, instead of writing the HTML to file, it gives me some errors:

> bash: color:red: command not found bash: > This text is in Verdana and
> red</p </body> </html>: No such file or directory

How can I do this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    A better option would be to use the here document syntax (see this answer):

    cat << 'EOF' > pkll.htm
<html> 
  <head>
    <title>HTML E-mail</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p style="font-family:verdana;color:red;">
      This text is in Verdana and red
    </p>
  </body>
</html>
EOF

    Your attempt failed because the double quotes in the HTML terminates the double quotes you wrapped around it and causing the <>s to be seen as redirections and the ;s to terminate the echo command.

    You could technically have used single quotes:

    ( 
echo '<html> 
<head>
<title>HTML E-mail</title>
etc ...'
)>pkll.htm

    but then you just have the same problem again if the HTML contains a ', such as an apostrophe or in an attribute. The here document has no such issues.

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