Re: Inconsistence when checking if a pattern is quoted or not for `==' and `=~' in [[ ]]

[Andreas Schwab]

Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> writes:

> I think you're all missing what Clark's question actually is.  Consider
> this:
>
> imadev:~$ cat <<\EOF
>> $PATH
>> EOF 
> $PATH
>
> The use of a backslash in front of one of the characters of the
> here-document's sentinel word is considered "quoting".  And because the
> sentinel word is "quoted", parameter expansions in the body are not done.

The backslash does not quote the here document, it quotes the first
character of the delimiter.  A (unquoted) backslash always quotes
exactly one character.

Andreas.

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