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Re: [Help-bash] Announcement: Started project to parse bash script to AS
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] Announcement: Started project to parse bash script to AST. |
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Mon, 24 Jul 2017 11:17:21 -0400 |
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On 7/22/17 8:33 PM, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> I've been working off of observation and thus far I've seen bash do a
> number of things I wish it wouldn't like failing on both of these.
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> address@hidden:~$ case in in a) ;; esac) ;;
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
> address@hidden:~$ case in in a) ;; esac | a) ;;
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
These are both syntax errors. Why would you rather the shell not
catch them?
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU address@hidden http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/