>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.
>John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914
Why are you trying to put a ; at the start of a command anyway? It is wrong.
This is plain and simple, a user error.
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