Re: PATCH: (2): Bug#255788: $'' does not work after <<<

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> 
> > " unchanged; ` now does the same thing as double quotes, which means \\
> > gets turned into \, etc.; backquotes don't do command substitution ---
> > they never did, but they wouldn't have been stripped properly.
> 
> Er, stripped?  They shouldn't get stripped, at least not when used as the 
> marker for a here-doc.  My example from previous mail showed that:

Grud.  I can easily fix this.  I will then commit it without asking, in
case there are yet more problems...  By the way, Solaris zsh treats
backquotes in the normal fashion, though doesn't do $-expansion.
However, ksh 88 is like bash.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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