On 2/18/23 12:50 AM, Oğuz İsmail Uysal wrote:
$ alias foo='cat <<EOF
bar
EOF
'
$ foo
$ date
$ uname
$ ^C
$ date
Sat Feb 18 08:41:32 AM +03 2023
$
Other shells I tested print `bar' and return to prompt. I remember
reporting a bug like this before but not sure if it was the same.
Yes, in this instance, bash tries to read the text of the here-document
from the input instead of the alias value. It's been on the list to fix
for a while. It's not hard, just hasn't gotten there yet in priority.
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