7 Aug
2018
7 Aug
'18
2:02 p.m.
On 7 Aug 2018 06:54 +0000, from michael(a)kjorling.se (Michael Kjörling):
the shell will do The Right Thing (tm)
I suspect I must stand corrected on this. Turns out that at least GNU
bash 4.4.12(1) seems to not like a `;` at the beginning of the command
line.
$ /bin/bash --version | head -n1
GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
$ /bin/bash
$ ; true
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
$ echo $?
2
$
Hopefully other shells are more sane.
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