Re: Parameter expansion oddity

[Bill Nottingham]

Chet Ramey (chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu) said: 
> > Bash Version: 2.05b
> > Patch Level: 0
> > Release Status: release
> > 
> > Description:
> >     ${VAR:+WORD} may be replaced by the expansion of WORD.  But there
> >     seems to be no way of creating double quotes in this expansion, since
> >     both quote removal and escaping behave oddly.
> 
> Are you wedded to using here documents?  Remember that here-docs are expanded
> as if the contents occur within double quotes, but that double quotes within
> the document aren't treated specially.

For this app, yes, it would be irritating to not be able to use here-docs
(the alternative is writing temporary files and piping those through
commands.)

Bill