Question

must be an easy one.
[edit] i am writing a BASH script, using HERE document to redirect some statements to SQL*Plus command-prompt.

sqlplus -s user/pw@db > $TMPFILE <<EOF
    SET ECHO OFF;
    SET FEEDBACK OFF;
    SET HEADING OFF;
      select x
      from a_table
      where a_field like '%$1%';
    EXIT;
EOF

of course this doesn’t work as there is no substitution within single quotes. so how i go about doing this? i cannot do something like "'%$1%'" because double-quotes still go as input to SQL*Plus and cause error.
thank you.

Answer 1

It should work without modification

My simple tests works:

 cat << HERE
 $BASHPID
 '$BASHPID'
 HERE

returns

 4608
 '4608'

This is because

If word is unquoted, all lines of the here-document are subjected to parameter expansion, command substitution, and arithmetic expansion. In the latter case, the character sequence \newline is ignored, and ‘\’ must be used to quote the characters ‘\’, ‘$’, and ‘`’.