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Re: maybe some of these "case" reactions are no-no's
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: maybe some of these "case" reactions are no-no's |
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Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:45:00 -0400 |
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Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>|> Dan Jacobson <jidanni@deadspam.com> wrote:
>|>> $ case a in b)esac #odd. what about ;;?
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>|> Looks like that ought to fail.
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> This is correct, the ;; is optional before esac (see case_list_ns in the
> shell grammar of POSIX.1-2001).
Ah, ok. Doc bug, then.
paul