On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 09:37:15AM +0000, avih wrote: > 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 > >> + $output > >> + OUTPUT > > > > I was a bit sceptical at first whether this produces the correct output, > > because I wasn't sure whether the first line might be indented while the > > others wouldn't be. And that would only happen if we indented with > > spaces, but when indenting with a tab it seems to work as expected. > > That's what the "-" does in "<<-". It strips leading input tab chars > at the content and the last line, and was specified as such since the > first POSIX release in 1994: > > If the redirection symbol is <<−, all leading tab characters will > be stripped from input lines and the line containing the trailing > delimiter. Oh, I know what `<<-` does. I just wasn't sure how it would behave when "$output" expands to a multi-line string, where subsequent expanded lines might or might not be indented. Patrick
