> Machine Type: i386-redhat-linux-gnu
>
> Bash Version: 4.0
> Patch Level: 23
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> Bash 4.0 errors on a here-document enclosed in $(). For example:
> x=$(cat <<EOF
> foo
> bar
> EOF)
> Ctrl+D
> -bash: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)'
> -bash: syntax error: unexpected end of file
The shell is allowed to do this. A here-document is supposed to be
terminated by a line containing the delimiter followed by a newline,
not EOF.
However, the behavior is useful enough that I changed the parser to
support it in bash-4.1.
Chet
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [email protected] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
