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Re: bash2 can't parse function definitions inside if statements
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Jehsom |
Subject: |
Re: bash2 can't parse function definitions inside if statements |
Date: |
14 Nov 2000 15:12:33 GMT |
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clgonsal@kami.com wrote:
> function greet () { echo hello "$*" }
> function greet () { echo goodbye "$*" }
It says clearly in the COMPAT file included with bash-2.04 that a set
of commands in braces now require a semicolon and/or newline before the
closing brace. It was actually incorrect that bash1 accepted the incor-
rect syntax.
Moshe
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