On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Dan Douglas <orm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, February 27, 2012 04:03:34 AM Davide Baldini wrote: >> Is this expected? Standing at the debian's man bash, variables inside >> 'here document' are supposed to expand with no special exceptions >> and undergo word splitting and pathname expansion. > > "If word is unquoted, all lines of the here-document are subjected to > parameter expansion, command substitution, and arithmetic expansion." > > No pathname expansion. > -- > Dan Douglas >
Think of regular here-doc (with an unquoted word) as being treated the same way as a double-quoted string
