On 11/27/16 9:51 AM, Eduardo Bustamante wrote:
> Delimiter (in your case the three character string "EOF"), has to be
> on its own line, with no leading or trailing blanks (or any other
> characters). If bash 3.x used to behave different, it's because it was
> buggy.
Not exactly. Bash has always supported the Bourne shell extension of
allowing the command substitution terminator to delimit a here document.
> Hence, the proper way to do a here-document inside command substitution:
>
> hp% cat hd
> export foo=$(cat <<EOF
> echo bar
> EOF
> )
This is true and obeys the letter of the standard.
Chet
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