maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) (06/16/90)
In article <1990Jun15.024859.4097@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, chet@cwns1.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey) writes: )In article <MEISSNER.90Jun11115342@curley.osf.org> ) meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes: ) )>| Bash 1.05 auto inserts the ;; as you can see: ) )>I know it inserts it. It should not give the error message -- after )>all, I may be piping stderr to someother program, and the bash is just )>a subshell. The error message is bogus. ) )Said error message will be gone in the next release, I think. According to POSIX 1003.2 _and_ the V7 Bourne shell + most followups the final `;;' can be omitted, as it should. -- "COBOL is the revenge of some witch burned |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam: in Salem, [...]" (Bill Davidsen) |maart@cs.vu.nl, uunet!cs.vu.nl!maart