Re: Here strings and pathname expansion

[Roman Rakus]

On 02/14/2011 06:43 AM, Jan Schampera wrote:
> Hello world,
>
>
> I recently answered a question about using the asterisk mixed with 
> redirection and other words. This also lead me to the documentation 
> that states (REDIRECTION section):
>
> ---
> The  word  following  the  redirection  operator in the following 
> descriptions, unless otherwise noted, is subjected to brace expansion, 
> tilde expansion, parameter expansion, command substitution, arithmetic 
> expansion, quote removal, pathname expansion, and word splitting.  If 
> it expands to more than one word, bash reports an error.
> ---
It is noted in Here Documents (and Here Strings is a variant of here 
documents). And there is:
No parameter expansion, command substitution, arithmetic expansion,  or 
pathname expansion is performed on word.
> This is EITHER
> (a) a documentation mistake OR
> (b) a bug
Case (c) - bad reading of documentation ;)
> Case (a) is clear, the exception is not mentioned.
It is.


RR