Re: Heredoc with a multiline delimiter

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/15/25 7:08 PM, MacBeth wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 16:14:00 +0000, Nikola Novak via Bug reports for the 
> > GNU Bourne Again SHell wrote:
> > > How do you end the heredoc with a multiline delimiter such as the following:
> > >
> > > cat << "a
> > > b"
> >
> > You don't.
>
> However you could fake it, by including backslashes in the delimiter,
> which would allow literal newlines,

It would not; this is a line continuation.

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