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Re: curiosity with here document.
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- From: ZyX <kp-pav@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: curiosity with here document.
- Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 22:03:11 +0300
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26.11.2015, 21:38, "Ray Andrews" <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I often comment out blocks of code with here-document, and I just found
> this strange thing:
>
> /test1 ()/
> /{/
> / if [[ "$1" = 'howdy' ]];/
>
> /: <<'COMMENT'/
> /blah blah
> COMMENT/
>
> / then/
> / echo stranger/
> / fi/
> /}/
>
> /$ test1 no/
> /stranger/
>
> There's no issue if I put the 'then' above the here-document. How should
> I understand that? It is as if the here-document is hijacking the 'if'
> test and returning true. I'd expect the 'if' to go hunting for it's
> 'then' and if it doesn't find it, then throw and error, but not let the
> here-document interlope. But if this is proper then it's a caution as
> to using these things for commenting.
And when writing such questions do read documentation. The specification for `if` looks like
if list then list [ elif list then list ] ... [ else list ] fi
and using “list” for *both* `if` condition and `then` block should have given you an answer.
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