[Help-bash] Understanding read -r

[Peng Yu]

Hi,

The manual says,
       -r     Backslash  does  not  act as an escape character.  The
backslash is considered to be part of the line.  In particular, a
back-
              slash-newline pair may not be used as a line continuation.

The following example shows that "\" at the line end means line
continuation. Is this wrong? Or I misunderstand the document?

~/linux/test/gnu/bash/man/builtin/read/-d$ ./main.sh
abc\'asdf"Hello
foo"bar"''
~/linux/test/gnu/bash/man/builtin/read/-d$ cat ./main.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash

my_var=Hello
read -r -d '' VAR <<EOF
abc\'asdf"\
$my_var
foo"bar"''
EOF

echo "$VAR"


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Regards,
Peng