On 4/27/20 10:03 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote: > So it seems the reserved rule is more accurately: > > Reserved words are words that have a special meaning to the > shell. The following words are recognized as reserved when > unquoted and either (1) where the first word of a simple command > could be (see SHELL GRAMMAR below), (2) the third word of a case, > for, or select command, the (3) first word of the body of a function > definition, or (4) after a semicolon or newline: >
> > ... Looking at this again, I think (1) and (3) can be replaced by "the> first > word of a command (see SHELL GRAMMAR below)", which helps. I'll rework it to use "the first word of a command" with the two execptions (third word of case/select, third word of for). This is pretty close to what POSIX has. Thanks for the report. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/