Re: BUG: Here-doc delimiter: unclosed quotes

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/18/24 9:16 AM, Dastan Abdygali wrote:

> Bash Version: 5.2
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>          If unclosed single quotes or unclosed double quotes are used as a
> delimiter in here-doc, bash lets the user finish the quote on
>          the next lines. As a result delimiter contains \newline character.
> Which even if pasted does not trigger the
>          here-doc to be concluded.

A here-document delimiter containing a newline can never work: the
delimiter has to appear on a line by itself, immediately followed by a
newline, to be recognized. Some of the ash-based shells accept delimiters
with embedded newlines, but bash never has.

I've considered adding a warning for this or making it a fatal syntax
error like yash, but never done it.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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