Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] heredoc
Date: Monday, 16 Nov 2020, 19:52:51

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > When implementing heredocs, do we need to execute each line on the
    > heredoc? For example, if we have:
    >
    > VALUE=1 cat << EOF
    > > hello: $VALUE
    > > LINE2
    > > LINE3, printenv VALUE
    > > EOF
    >
    > does $VALUE and printenv VALUE get expanded before being put into a
    > temporary file and being made the stdin of cat?

As stated in the specification:

  ...  Moreover, the behavior of bashLT may not match bash in some cases,
  including:
  ...
  g. bash expands HERE documents; bashLT does not.

---Stan-