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 \
>
Bash has an unusual behaviour when a non-expanding here-document (<<‘EOT’) is
used inside $(…) command substitution. Newline joining occurs within the
document when it would not if the same document were not inside a command
substitution, while other shells do not perform it in either case.
Thi
