Bug: tramp shell command doesn't read stdin

[Sylvain Chouleur]

Hi,

there is a regression introduced by this commit:

5340e5f5ff93a89fe18c342e68ebfa45b840eb64

Author: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>

Date:   Fri Dec 6 16:21:06 2013 +0100

    * tramp-sh.el (tramp-sh-handle-start-file-process): Handle long

    command lines, lasting from "sh -c ...".  (Bug#16045)

The syntax exec <<EOF /bin/bash

commands

EOF

prevents users to send inputs to bash using stdin.

For example, the following does not works anymore:

exec <<EOF /bin/bash

read line;

echo $line;

EOF

I don't understand what was this problem of long command lines: I've tried to execute shell comands with huge command lines and all were successfull.

To keep the approach of splitting the lines, I would suggest something like that:

exec /bin/bash -c "

commands

on

multiple lines

"

But this needs to backslash all shell specific characters

What do you think?

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Sylvain