Hello, Anyone want to tell me why a semicolon at the beginning of a shell line causes an error?
The following work fine under sh, bash, ksh and csh (redhat 7.0): date;ls -l date;ls -l; but ';date;ls -l' fails under all shells except csh with the error: sh: syntax error near unexpected token `;d' bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;d' pdksh: syntax error: `;' unexpected I see no real reason for this, and a semicolon at the end of the line seems to be accepted okay. Just curious. Regards, John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available from public key servers _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
