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Re: [Help-bash] Interesting consequence of Bash's grammar
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Evan Gates |
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Re: [Help-bash] Interesting consequence of Bash's grammar |
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Thu, 27 Aug 2015 12:20:31 -0700 |
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Ioan-Andrei Bârsan
> shell_command can, among other things, be the `{ ... }` group command, but
> it can also be an if statement, or a while loop (see line 760).
This is specified by POSIX.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_09_05
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_09_04
-emg