7 Aug
2018
7 Aug
'18
11:24 a.m.
On 07/08/2018 09:02, Michael Kjörling wrote:
On 7 Aug 2018 06:54 +0000, from michael(a)kjorling.se
(Michael Kjörling):
ksh and sh on an IRIX system don't like it either:
$ ;
ksh: syntax error: `;' unexpected
$
csh and tcsh don't mind.
Of course it works in rc itself, which is the point, really, and I
wonder how often anyone pasted from one shell into another. All the rc
use I've seen did indeed use "; " as the prompt, but that was all at the
University of York, starting in 1993.
--
Pete
Pete Turnbull
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.