Re: Broken "heredoc" mechanism in bash2.03

[Chet Ramey]

> Bash Version: 2.03
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> Doing an indented "cat <<- !" (tested with other terminators also) 
> fails as shown in the scripts below.
> 
> Repeat-By:
> 
> Here are two scripts that demonstrate the problem, in two different 
> ways.

Your `failing' lines include spaces.  Only leading TAB characters are
stripped when using <<-. 

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