Re: Bash skips empty lines when reading history file in multiline mode

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/4/25 4:18 PM, Jens Schmidt wrote:

[bashbug output manually adapted to real version ...]
Bash Version: 5.3
Commit: a6767763de5e7859107711b166a64a9e4a77a8ae
Release Status: compiled from recent devel branch


Description:
   Bash skips empty lines when reading history file in multiline mode.

This is a problem even if lithist isn't set -- it's not uncommon to have
blank lines in here-documents.

But do you really think people want blank history entries even with lithist
set? How about history processing blank lines as part of the command after
it reads the first non-blank line?

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