Re: syntax error while parsing a case command within `$(...)'

[Oğuz]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 8:34 AM Koichi Murase <myoga.mur...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Because the ending keywords---}, fi, done, and esac---are allowed to
> be chained, which I think is undocumented though.
>
> $ { { { { { echo "Something like this is allowed"; } } } } }
>

Huh. So a compound list consisting of a single compound command and no
separator is still a valid compound list.

    $ if (:) then (:) fi
    $

I had no idea.


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> Koichi
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