Re: Incomplete command substitution in here-document not regarded as an error

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/6/19 4:37 PM, Oğuz wrote:
> cat <<EOF
> $(seq 10
> EOF
>
> prints 1, while it should report a syntax error.

Thanks for the report. Bash has, for some years, allowed EOF/EOS to 
terminate a command substitution in certain circumstances, but this really
only shows up when you're expanding it inside a here-document. There is a
(relatively cryptic) warning message, but that only shows up in development
builds. It seems reasonable to make the behavior when expanding here-
documents match the behavior outside them.

Chet


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