Re: Format of here-documents

[Dennis Williamson]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 7:05 AM Jonesy via <help-bash@gnu.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:26:09 -0500, Dennis Williamson wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 2:39 PM Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri <
> > andreas.kahari@abc.se> wrote:.
> >
> >>
> >> Until the delimiter is seen, which is the same as the word if the word
> >> is unquoted.  The delimiter most be flush right with no preceding
> >> whitespace, unless the optional - is used before the word, in which case
> >> tab characters are stripped from the start of the line.
> >
> > Flush left.
>
> Flush left *and* flush right.
>
> The original statement was accurate bu somewhat confounding.
>
> Jonesy
> --
>   Marvin L Jones    | Marvin      | W3DHJ.net  | linux
>    38.238N 104.547W |  @ jonz.net | Jonesy     |  FreeBSD
>     * Killfiling google & XXXXbanter.com: jonz.net/ng.htm
>


I consider "flush right" and "no trailing whitespace" to have different
meanings. To me the former implies a right tab as in word processing or
text at the beginning of a line in a right-to-left text system. In other
words, text at the right margin.