tests/herestr1.sub

   1 # problems with word splitting unquoted here-strings present since bash-3.2
   2
   3 x="foo        bar"
   4 cat <<< $x     # Word-splitting appears to collapse the run of whitespace
   5 cat <<< "$x"  # Whitespace preserved, as with here doc
   6
   7 x="qux:::::bax"
   8 IFS=':'
   9 cat <<< $x     # Word-splitting appears to collapse the run of whitespace
  10 cat <<< "$x"  # Whitespace preserved, as with here doc