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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: dash@vger.kernel.org, herbert.xu@redhat.com, dvlasenk@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Handle line continuation in unquoted heredocs
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 17:47:33 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aLAltecN3o4AdeNv@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250807201015.11358-1-dvlasenk@redhat.com>

Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> wrote:
> Testcases:
> 
> cat <<nice
> heredoc1
> ni\
> ce
> nice # this isn't heredoc end, the end is above

I think this is debatable.  The current behaviour differs from
bash, but matches ksh.

Since POSIX apparently left this as unspecified, I'm not changing
dash.

Thanks,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2025-08-28  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-07 20:10 [PATCH] Handle line continuation in unquoted heredocs Denys Vlasenko
2025-08-07 20:50 ` Harald van Dijk
2025-08-28  9:47 ` Herbert Xu [this message]

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