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Defect in manual section "Here Strings"

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In the section https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Here-Strings there is no mention (as far as I can see, it doesn't follow from the documented expansions etc.) that the result is terminated with a newline (see e. g. od <<<''). This puzzles users and leads to speculation - see e. g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33245568/why-does-bash-always-add-a-newline-when-expanding-here-strings - on correctness, dependability and intent of the behavior. To clarify it, I suggest to change the last sentence from

        The result is supplied as a single string to the command on its standard input.

to

        The result with a newline appended is supplied as a single string to the command on its standard input.
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Dietmar Schindler

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