AW: Defect in manual section "Here Strings"

2015-11-11 Thread dietmar.schindler
> Von: Greg Wooledge [mailto:wool...@eeg.ccf.org] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. November 2015 14:11 > > ... > > That wording is a bit clumsy. I would suggest: > > The result is suppled as a single string, with a newline appended, > to the command on its standard input. I have no objection

Defect in manual section "Here Strings"

2015-11-11 Thread dietmar.schindler
In the section https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Here-Strings there is no mention (as far as I can see, it doesn't follow from the documented expansions etc.) that the result is terminated with a newline (see e. g. od <<<''). This puzzles users and leads to speculation - see e.