Re: $* in here-document

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/24/25 11:13 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:

Reproducer:

IFS=/
set a b c
cat <<EOF
$*
EOF

Actual output: a b c
Expected output: a/b/c

In any context in which field splitting is not possible, POSIX specifies that $* uses the first character of $IFS as the output field separator. Here-documents are such a context.

Thanks for the report. I fixed this back in November, 2022, based on

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2022-09/msg00002.html

It came in too late in the bash-5.2 release cycle to be included.

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