Re: Pathname expansion not performed in Here Documents

[Steven W. Orr]

On 2/27/2012 1:26 AM, Pierre Gaston wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Davide Baldini
> <baldiniebaldini@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > On 02/27/12 05:04, DJ Mills wrote:
> > > Think of regular here-doc (with an unquoted word) as being treated the
> > > same way as a double-quoted string
> >
> > Thank you Mills, of course I can understand it _now_, after having hit
> > the problem, but my point is different: the description of a program's
> > details should be first of all in its main point of reference, its
> > manual. I'm a bit surprised that while the developers elite perfectly
> > know the correct details, nobody is going to review a misleading manual
> > being a reference for the most of us.
>
> The manual seems quite clear:
> "If word is unquoted, all lines of the here-document are subjected to
> parameter  expansion,  command  substitution,  and arithmetic
> expansion.  In the latter case, the character sequence \<newline>  is
> ignored, and \ must be used  to  quote the characters \, $, and `."
>
> Maybe you could point the part of  the manual that mislead you into
> thinking that  " here doc are supposed to expand with no special
> exceptions" so that it can be corrected?

I don't mean this in a snarky way, but shell man pages are historically in the 
class of docs that you really need to read over and over again. There are a 
few books on shell programming, most of them not very good, but I personally 
have read the bash man pages literally thousands of times and before I'm dead, 
I expect to multiply that many times over. There are really good web pages 
that people have put a lot of of time and energy into, and those are not to be 
dismissed. The idea is to assemble your resources enough that you can know 
where to go to answer a specific question. In between those questions, you 
really need to re-read your reference material on a regular basis.

It never ends. :-)
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