Re: Unexpected history expanded in heredoc in $() or <()

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/29/20 11:59 AM, ladyrick wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 12
> Release Status: release
> 
> 
> Description:
>       A heredoc starts with "cat <<'EOF'" is expected to not expand anything 
> just like in a single quote string. But when this heredoc is in a $() or <(), 
> history is expanded.

It's an interesting question. While quoted here-document delimiters do
suppress expansion, unquoted delimiters result in expansion similar to
double quotes, and double quotes don't suppress history substitution.
Yet, when not in a command substitution, history substitution is never
performed on the lines in a here-document.

But consistency is important, and I agree that the expansion should not
take place while parsing command or process substitutions, whether or not
the delimiter is quoted.

Chet

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