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Re your last sentence, "As a result, it is not ...". Your preceding sentence refers to the body of the here document, not the terminator. The terminator - called the delimiter in man bash - is, as per your quote from man bash, "the delimiter is the result of quote removal on word"

Peter.O
– Peter.O

2015-05-21 10:54:13 +00:00
Commented May 21, 2015 at 10:54
@Peter.O: Correct on both counts. Only backslash-newline escape processing is performed prior to comparing the delimiter (and in this case, that's irrelevant because the quoted backslash inhibits escape processing).

rici
– rici

2015-05-21 14:12:38 +00:00
Commented May 21, 2015 at 14:12

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