++ On Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 12:10 AM MacBeth <macbeth.112...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM Greg Wooledge <g...@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, but bash would ignore them as they > are escape sequences. So they wouldn't actually be a part of the > delimiter from bash's perspective, but merely visually and accepted > from the literal input. > > $ cat <<EOT\ > $ EOF > $ hello > $ goodbye > $ EOT\ > $ EOF > hello > goodbye > $ > >
