severity 36219 minor
tags 36219 + patch
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<andpuke@foxmail.com> writes:

> Since commit a90d5e6309c0306d931d398506b242c3eb4f40d7 which fixes bug #23159
> the `--eval' command line option signals (error "Trailing garbage following
> expression: %s") on more than one expression recevied.

> This causes some old shell script snippets which has trailing newline for
> formatting no longer works, such as the follow script from
> https://orgmode.org/manual/Batch-Execution.html#Batch-Execution


> Since `eval-expression' accepts additional white space and newlines after a
> single expression, this mismatch behavior of `--eval' should be considered as a
> bug.
>
> My proposed fix is apply `string-trim-right` to received string of expression.
>

I think I'd prefer checking the trailing garbage for whitespace, which
is what eval-expression does.  See following patch: