Re: Functions with heredoc in command list misformatted by set

[Chet Ramey]

buport@figpost.com wrote:
> Bash Version: 3.2
> Patch Level: 33
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>
> The 'set' command is supposed to print function definitions "in a format
> that may be reused as input for setting or resetting the currently-set
> variables." However, it misformats command lists that use heredocs. The
> 'type' command has the same problem. (I noticed this problem because
> Gentoo's build system tries to save and restore the environment this way,
> and it was producing syntax errors.)

Thanks for the report.  This is fixed in bash-4.0 (it took a while for the
right solution to bubble up).

Chet

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