On 3/20/19 8:19 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Even if Chet changed how here docs work in bash 5.1, nobody would
> be safe to use those features in their "I'm feeding a password with
> a here string" scripts for at least 20 years, because there will
> still be people running older versions of bash for at least that long.
Snark aside, this is a serious consideration. Linux distros are still
shipping with bash-4.2 (and not with all the patches applied, either),
which was originally released in late 2010.
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``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
