How can I evaluate a variable before appending with tee?
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How can I evaluate a variable before appending with tee?
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I need to evaluate this variables before appending this lines to a few files:

sudo tee -a /etc/profile /etc/zshenv /etc/zsh/zshenv &>/dev/null <<EOF
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$SYNC"/config
export XDG_CACHE_HOME="$HOME"/.cache
export XDG_DATA_HOME="$HOME"/.local/share
export XDG_STATE_HOME="$HOME"/.local/state
export ZDOTDIR="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"/zsh
EOF
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tee is useful for sending stdin to a file AND stdout, if you want to just write to a file you can do:

cat <<EOF > /tmp/file_to_write
stuff $VAR etc
EOF

EDIT: to append use this top line: cat <<EOF >> /tmp/file_to_write (double >)

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this: <<EOF is called a “here-doc”, and variable interpolation works in it =\

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