On 5/3/20 2:28 AM, Tobias Wendorff wrote:
> Bash Version: 5.0
> Patch Level: 3
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> When creating a here document containing the greater-than sign followed
> by number sign, newlines get added to Bash history:
> ```
> $ history
> 1 cat << 'EOF' > /dev/null
> <#a
>
> <#b
>
> EOF> ```
Thanks for the report. It's not the less-than sign; it's the hash character
that makes the difference. The command-oriented history mode has to pay
attention to those, because shell comments are one place where you can't
replace a newline with a semicolon. It just needs to also pay attention to
the fact that bash is reading a here-document.
This was reported and fixed in October, 2019, and the fix is in the devel
branch.
--
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``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
