Re: Heredoc with a multiline delimiter

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/15/25 9:18 PM, Robert Elz wrote:

> POSIX says:
>
>         It is unspecified whether the line containing the trailing delimiter
>         is itself subject to this line continuation.
>
> which means that nothing is required to make that work.   Further, unless
> bash documents it as working, it is free to change the way it works for
> that at any time, so was anyone to take your advice and actually use that
> method, then they'd be risking their code breaking in a subsequent release,
> with perhaps no warning at all.

The current version of the man page says:

"If the delimiter is not quoted, the \<newline> sequence is treated as a
 line  continuation:  the two lines are joined and the backslash-newline
 is removed.  This happens while reading the here-document,  before  the
 check for the ending delimiter, so joined lines can form the end delim-
 iter."

I added it last September.

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