I noticed that here strings (<<< word) doesn't quite follow the documented behavior: "The result is supplied as a single string to the command on its standard input." Instead, or in addition, a newline is appended to the string. I therefore propose to clarify this in the man page, see below for proposal.
I tried to make -C doc, but even on a clean clone it produces a diff. Therefore, it may be best if you guys apply the below patch and run make. Håkon Hallingstad diff --git a/doc/bash.1 b/doc/bash.1 index ec41462..5d9bf30 100644 --- a/doc/bash.1 +++ b/doc/bash.1 @@ -3801,8 +3801,8 @@ The \fIword\fP undergoes brace expansion, tilde expansion, parameter and variable expansion, command substitution, arithmetic expansion, and quote removal. Pathname expansion and word splitting are not performed. -The result is supplied as a single string to the command on its -standard input. +The result is supplied as a single string, with a newline appended, +to the command on its standard input. .SS "Duplicating File Descriptors" .PP The redirection operator
