On 17.11.2020 05:04, Jordan Geoghegan wrote:
Hello, I'm not sure if this is a bug, or if it's just a pdksh thing, but I stumbled upon some interesting behaviour when I was tinkering around with quoting and using a poor mans array: test=$(cat <<'__EOT' # I'll choose not to close this quote other_stuff __EOT ) echo "$test" When I run this command on ash, dash, yash, bash, zsh or ksh93 I get the following output: # I'll choose not to close this quote other_stuff But when I run it on ksh from base or any pdksh derivative it throws an error about an unclosed quote: test.sh[8]: no closing quote This snippet works on every POSIX-y shell in the ports tree, and fails on every pdksh variant I tried, including on NetBSD and DragonflyBSD as well. I don't have the requisite esoteric knowledge regarding pdksh's internal quoting logic, so I'm hoping one of the gurus here can determine whether this is a bug or if I'm just doing something annoying.
BTW try it somewhere with vim and enabled color syntax and you will see immediately what is wrong
Any insight that can be provided would be much appreciated. Regards, Jordan
