On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 9:02 PM Damien ISSANCHOU <d.issanc...@gmail.com> wrote: > When expanding $* within a here-document, bash puts a space between > each positional parameters while I would expect it to put the first > character of the IFS variable (if it contains at least one character) as > per POSIX.1-2017.
FYI, this seems to be the same issue as reported in https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2022-09/msg00002.html And the devel branch has exactly the fix the you propose: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/subst.c?h=devel&id=e1dd98a1d#n10513
