7 Aug
2018
7 Aug
'18
2:37 p.m.
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 06:23:37PM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Tue, 7 Aug 2018, Michael Kjörling wrote:
I have tried all the shells I have on my linux box. It turns out that
only ksh and zsh like a ";" at the beginning of the line. Otherwise,
bash, busybox, ash/dash, mksk, posh, and yash can't bear it.
I really don't see the point of using ";", especially if you need to
make it clear if a command needs to be run by root.
$ ;-P
sh: 1: Syntax error: ";" unexpected
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Hopefully other shells are more sane.
The MacBook here runs GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release
(x86_64-apple-darwin16) and is equally busted, as is plain "sh" on both the
Mac and FreeBSD (I can't be bothered checking the Penguin); I use ZSH on
FreeBSD and it does The Right Thing (tm), as does ZSH on the Mac.
-- Dave