Re: here-documents in $(command) substitution

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/27/16 9:51 AM, Eduardo Bustamante wrote:

> Delimiter (in your case the three character string "EOF"), has to be
> on its own line, with no leading or trailing blanks (or any other
> characters). If bash 3.x used to behave different, it's because it was
> buggy.

Not exactly.  Bash has always supported the Bourne shell extension of
allowing the command substitution terminator to delimit a here document.

> Hence, the proper way to do a here-document inside command substitution:
> 
>     hp% cat hd
>     export foo=$(cat <<EOF
>     echo bar
>     EOF
>     )

This is true and obeys the letter of the standard.

Chet
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