Is nesting of Here Document possible in a unix bash script?

Question

Is it possible to write a heredoc within another heredoc ?

ssh -T -q yxz@server1 <<-"END_TEXT"
.
.
    ssh -T -q abc@server2 <<-"SUB_TEXT"
    .
    .
    SUB_TEXT
.
.
END_TEXT

Answer 1

Yes

However, the nested heredoc terminator will only be recognized when indented if the indentation is done with actual tabs. Spaces won't work.

So you probably want to do something more like:

ssh s1 << \eof1
  ssh s2 << \eof2
    hostname
eof2
eof1