Re: Document that here strings don't support brace expansion.

2023-03-14 Thread Alex Bochannek
Chet, Thank you for the thoughtful responses. My thoughts below got a bit long, so here is a summary: - The here-string documentation should either spell out that brace expansion is not performed or simple only list the expansions that are. - The same goes for the documentation for the shell-

Re: Document that here strings don't support brace expansion.

2023-03-13 Thread Alex Bochannek
Chet Ramey writes: > On 3/11/23 3:39 AM, Alex Bochannek wrote: >> Bash Version: 5.2 >> Patch Level: 15 >> Release Status: release >> Description: >> The documentation for here strings says: >> "The WORD undergoes tilde expansion, parameter and va

Document that here strings don't support brace expansion.

2023-03-11 Thread Alex Bochannek
Bash Version: 5.2 Patch Level: 15 Release Status: release Description: The documentation for here strings says: "The WORD undergoes tilde expansion, parameter and variable expansion, command substitution, arithmetic expansion, and quote removal. Filename expansion and word splitting are not per