On Friday, August 16, 2024 at 11:50:12 AM GMT+3, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 01:14:06PM +0000, Avi Halachmi (:avih) via GitGitGadget wrote: >> - done <<< "$output" >> + done <<-OUTPUT >> + $output >> + OUTPUT > > I was a bit sceptical at first whether this produces the correct output, > because I wasn't sure whether the first line might be indented while the > others wouldn't be. And that would only happen if we indented with > spaces, but when indenting with a tab it seems to work as expected. That's what the "-" does in "<<-". It strips leading input tab chars at the content and the last line, and was specified as such since the first POSIX release in 1994: If the redirection symbol is <<−, all leading tab characters will be stripped from input lines and the line containing the trailing delimiter.
