On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 10:28:52AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > 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.
And Mac OS X is still shipping bash 3.2. Please believe me, this was intended as a completely serious issue. We deal with it in IRC all the time.
