I usually use cat in a bash script to create files. However sometimes the text for output through cat is interpreted and this causes script errors or wrong files. Especially with ASCII art output. The fix for this is to quote the 'EOF' string.

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Always forgetting certain not often used commands. So here's a reminder to set the sticky group bit on a directory so everything created is with same group ownership of the parent directory!

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