Thank you for setting me straight! I had checked the POSIX spec
before sending the report but missed the part about the delimiter
having to be immediately followed by newline.
Martin
On 09/24/2009 06:39 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
Machine Type: i386-redhat-linux-gnu
Bash Version: 4.0
Patch Level: 23
> 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 < foo
> bar
> EOF)
> Ctrl+D
> -bash: unexpected EOF while
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i386
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i386'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i386-redhat-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='redhat' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPA