Configuration Information:
Machine: x86_64
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='unknown' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash'
-DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
On 2/11/17 12:11 AM, Michael Homer wrote:
> If the same command is put inside command substitution instead, Bash (and
> pdksh) behaves differently than the others, and performs newline joining to
> have a single line in the middle “def ghi”. Given
> x=$(cat <<'EOT'
> abc
> def \
>