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Re: Trailing spaces confuse here document delimiter matching
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Trailing spaces confuse here document delimiter matching |
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Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:28:33 -0500 |
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25422
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> Is this behavior *really* posix conformant?
Yes.
POSIX says that here-document processing ``continues until there is a
line containing only the delimiter, with no trailing <blank>s.''
The way I read this, bash cannot `ignore trailing spaces completely'
as the poster suggests.
--
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( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)
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