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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