Re: whitespace in here documents

[Chet Ramey]

> Please take a look at
> 
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25422
> 
> Is this a bug or a feature? I'm not sure either way...

POSIX says that here-document processing ``continues until there is a
line containing only the delimiter, with no trailing <blank>s.''

The way I read this, bash cannot `ignore trailing spaces completely'
as the poster suggests.

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Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet@po.CWRU.Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/


-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)

Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet@po.CWRU.Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/