Re: Here strings and pathname expansion

[Jan Schampera]

Roman Rakus wrote:

> It is noted in Here Documents (and Here Strings is a variant of here 
> documents). And there is:
> No parameter expansion, command substitution, arithmetic expansion,  or 
> pathname expansion is performed on word.

This is not true for here strings (infact, it wouldn't make sense  for 
here strings to disallow for example parameter expansion).

I see the relation to here documents. I just tried to point out that 
either thze documentation or the behaviour should be revised.

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