Bug:
Trailing white space after the delimiting tag cause the here document to
fail with an error like
/./<script_name>: line <line_number>: warning: here-document at line
<line_number> delimited by end-of-file (wanted `msg_end')Trailing white
space/
Trailing white space after the start of the here statement is ignored.
This doesn't appear to be documented anywhere. All the material I have
seen on here documents I've seen so far never mention the requirement
that the tag a the end must be free of any trailing white space.
_Inconsistency _: If white space after the start of the here statement
is permitted and ignored then it should be the same with a tag
terminating the here statement.
Test script
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#/usr/bin/bash
cat << msg_end
Bash version
$(bash --version)
msg_end
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> *# This fails*
*> cat -A test_here*
#/usr/bin/bash$
cat << msg_end $
$
Bash version$
$(bash --version)$
$
msg_end $
>
> *# This works*
*> cat -A test_here*
#/usr/bin/bash$
cat << msg_end $
$
Bash version$
$(bash --version)$
$
msg_end$
>
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Tested on these, all virtual machines excdept MSYS2 which runs alongside
MS Win10. MS WSL2 is a virtual machine.
Output is from bash --version and uname -a commands.
Zorin Linux -
GNU bash, version 5.0.17(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Linux XXXX 5.15.0-78-generic #85~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jul 17 09:42:39
UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
MS Windows WSL2 (Ubuntu)
GNU bash, version 5.1.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Linux XXXX 5.15.90.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP Fri Jan 27 02:56:13
UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
MS Windows MSYS2 (derived from Cygwin)
GNU bash, version 5.2.15(1)-release (x86_64-pc-msys)
MSYS_NT-10.0-19045 bob 3.4.6.x86_64 2023-02-15 18:03 UTC x86_64 Msys
Oracle on ARM
GNU bash, version 5.1.16(1)-release (aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu)
Linux ub01 5.15.0-1034-oracle #40-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 19 16:10:04 UTC
2023 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
