Re: POSIX shell specification insight requested
Scripsit Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
> -- A script consisting solely of redirections produces unspecified
> results
> ======================================================================
> The here document is a redirection, hence the reults of that
> command substitution are unspecified.
No, it is only unspecified if the script consists *solely* of
redirections. This one consists of an invocation of /bin/cat, plus a
redirection.
"A script consisting solely of redirections" might be
foo=$( </etc/motd )
which, say, dash and bash take to mean two different things.
--
Henning Makholm "Detta, sade de, vore rena sanningen;
ty de kunde tala sanning lika väl som någon
annan, när de bara visste vad det tjänade til."
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