From: Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 22:39:17 GMT
Subject: Re: gitweb wishlist
Message-ID: <20050525003917.40700d19.froese@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505241212190.2307@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 	- Some Shell escapes (I didn't looked into them yet)
> 
> Ok, I'll check it out. I didn't figure out what characters are 
> shell-expanded by "<<EOF" handling, and only did '$' because that showed 
> up in the syslinux archives.

Nothing is expanded when you quote the EOF-word:

cat <<"EOF"
`foo` $PATH
bar \
baz
EOF

gives:

`foo` $PATH
bar \
baz

Ciao, ET.