On Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 10:43:45PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> This one made me think of an additional pathological case, though I'm
> not sure it's worth having a test:
>
> test_expect_success 'pathological-here-doc-body' - <<\EOF
> echo "missing chain before"
> cat >file <<-\EOF &&
> inside inner here-doc
> these are not shell commands
> EOF
> echo "missing chain after"
> echo "but this line is OK because it's the end"
> EOF
>
> It's exactly the same as your test except that the same tag ("EOF") is
> used for both outer and inner heredocs. It works because the outer
> heredoc is introduced with `<<` whereas the inner with `<<-`. The
> opposite case, in which outer is introduced with `<<-` and inner with
> `<<`, obviously would be bogus.
Ooh, that's devious. I'll add it.
-Peff
