Re: manpage is incorrect re << heredocs and \<newline>

Chet Ramey <[email protected]> Wed, 6 May 2026 16:12:57 -0400

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On 5/6/26 6:12 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:

>           If word is unquoted, the delimiter is word itself, and the
> here-document  text is treated similarly to a double-quoted string:
> all lines of the here-document are subjected  to  parameter  expan‐
> sion, command substitution, and arithmetic expansion, the character
> sequence \<newline> is treated literally
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is false. Backslash-newline is treated literally only in
> <<"EOF" heredocs. In <<EOF heredocs, it is removed
> (it's a line continuation).

Thanks. I think this was a sloppy paste job back in September, 2024, when
I made some edits.


> Here the description is correct. Not sure why the explanation
> how backslash-newline behaves is repeated twice.

Probably because someone asked for it to be called out and clarified.

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