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name="Alice"

# Quoted delimiter: NO expansion (good for embedding scripts or shell snippets)
cat <<'EOF'
Hello $name — this $variable stays literal.
EOF

# Unquoted: full expansion
cat <<EOF
Hello $name — interpolated.
Current dir: $(pwd)
Date: $(date)
EOF

# <<-EOF strips leading tabs (handy when indenting inside if/for)
if true; then
    cat <<-'EOF'
	Indented heredoc — leading tabs stripped, single quotes prevent expansion.
	Useful inside functions / conditional blocks.
	EOF
fi