On Feb 16 2021, Koichi Murase wrote:
> Because the ending keywords---}, fi, done, and esac---are allowed to
> be chained, which I think is undocumented though.
See 2.4 Reserved Words.
This recognition shall only occur when none of the characters is
quoted and when the word is used as:
* The first word of a command
* The first word following one of the reserved words other than
case, for, or in
* The third word in a case command (only in is valid in this case)
* The third word in a for command (only in and do are valid in this
case)
Andreas.
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