--- John Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Not certain about this but probably to do with the fact that the ; usually acts as as a command terminator. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
