Re: Newlines resulting from alias expansion are ignored by here-document processing

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/30/23 3:45 AM, gldrk wrote:

$ cat test
alias 'foo=cat <<EOF
hello'
foo
world
EOF
$ sh test
world
test: line 5: hello: command not found

My reading of the upcoming POSIX revision (https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=953#c4214) is that they should be treated just like newline tokens coming from the source.

Thanks for the report. Reading here-documents from aliases is a known
issue. There will be an initial fix in the next devel branch push.

Chet
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