Re: bash-4.0 regression with here documents and multiline subshells

[Chet Ramey]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> the documentation shows that for <<< here documents, the word must be right 
> after the operator (although it doesnt really spell it out).  not sure if 
> that 
> should be made explicit and to have bash reject it, or to fix up this issue 
> so 
> it works again ...
> 
> at any rate, this style usage, while seemingly not allowed by the docs, works 
> fine with older/current bash:
> echo $(cat <<< "foo")
> 
> however, when we go multiline, bash-4.0 gets into a parsing loop:
> $ cat test.sh
> #!/bin/bash
> echo $(
>       cat <<< "foo"
> )
> $ ./test.sh
> ./test.sh: line 2: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)'
> ./test.sh: line 5: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> 
> if we go ahead and remove that whitespace after the <<<, then it works fine:
> $ cat test.sh
> #!/bin/bash
> echo $(
>       cat <<<"foo"
> )
> $ ./test.sh
> foo

Problem with the $(...) parser not knowing the difference between << and
<<<.  The attached patch fixes it.

Chet
-- 
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

*** ../bash-4.0/parse.y 2009-01-08 08:29:12.000000000 -0500
--- parse.y     2009-02-26 17:22:15.000000000 -0500
***************
*** 3395,3400 ****
              else
                shell_ungetc (peekc);
!             tflags |= LEX_HEREDELIM;
!             lex_firstind = -1;
              continue;
            }
--- 3402,3410 ----
              else
                shell_ungetc (peekc);
!             if (peekc != '<')
!               {
!                 tflags |= LEX_HEREDELIM;
!                 lex_firstind = -1;
!               }
              continue;
            }