Eric Blake wrote:
I'm not sure whether this is a bug in POSIX or in bash, but I noticed the
following with bash-3.2.39.
$ bash -c 'foo=$(cat <<EOF
hi
EOF)
echo $foo'
I agree with your analysis. The reworked command-substitution parsing in
bash-4.0 makes this a syntax error.
Finally, bash has a definite bug, with no POSIX ambiguities:
$ bash -c 'cat <<EOF
hi'
Here, bash treats end-of-input as the heredoc delimiter, and prints "hi", even
though it should be complaining of a syntax error since the heredoc (and thus
the script) is unterminated. pdksh behaves correctly and fails with a syntax
error.
This is how sh has behaved since at least version 7. The v7 and SVR4.2 sh
(and ksh93) behave as bash does here. I'm coming down on the side of
historical behavior here.
Chet
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