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@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
<para>Then write rules that create the symlinks, e.g.:</para>
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/udev/rules.d/83-duplicate_devs.rules &lt;&lt; EOF
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/udev/rules.d/83-duplicate_devs.rules &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>
# Persistent symlinks for webcam and tuner
KERNEL=="video*", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1910", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0d81", \
@@ -138,18 +138,6 @@ KERNEL=="video*", ATTRS{device}=="0x036f", ATTRS{vendor}=="0x109e", \
</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>
- <note>
- <para>Be aware that Udev does not recognize the backslash for line
- continuation. This example works properly because both the backslash
- and newline are ignored by the shell. This makes the shell send each
- rule to cat on only one line. (The shell ignores this sequence because
- the EOF string used in the here-document redirection is not enclosed in
- either double or single quotes. For more details, see the bash(1)
- manpage, and search it for "Here Documents".)</para>
- <para>If modifying Udev rules with an editor, be sure to leave each
- rule on one physical line.</para>
- </note>
-
<para>The result is that <filename>/dev/video0</filename> and
<filename>/dev/video1</filename> devices still refer randomly to the tuner
and the web camera (and thus should never be used directly), but there are