On 6/4/18 10:20 PM, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> The general rule is simple: bash reads input a line at a time, feeding
>> each line to the parser, until it has enough input for a complete
>> command. If it doesn't have enough to complete a comman
On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> The general rule is simple: bash reads input a line at a time, feeding
> each line to the parser, until it has enough input for a complete
> command. If it doesn't have enough to complete a command, it will read
> additional lines. If a newline w
On 6/1/18 1:28 AM, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> Hello. See
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/253518/where-are-bash-line-continuations-after-and-documented.
>
> Roughly put, wherever lines terminating with a particular token are
> syntactically valid, they are taken as complete, and an expl
Hello. See
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/253518/where-are-bash-line-continuations-after-and-documented.
Roughly put, wherever lines terminating with a particular token are
syntactically valid, they are taken as complete, and an explicit \ is
required to continue the line, but lines end
