Re: Unexpected parse error in function definition involing grouping braces and redirections

[Michael Le Barbier Grünewald]

Hi Greg,

thank you for your answer!

> On 16 Jun 2015, at 14:58, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 01:56:31PM +0200, Michael Le Barbier Grünewald wrote:
>>          1>&2 {
>>            printf "$@"
>>            printf '\n'
>>          }
> 
> Redirections may appear anywhere in a simple command, but may only appear
> at the END of a compound command.  Brace grouping is a compound command,
> so this is actually a syntax error.

I was not aware of this, and this is actually described in the REDIRECTIONS
paragraph of the manual page.

Nevertheless, when evaluating the second snippet

       failwith()
       {
         1>&2 {
           printf 'Failure: '
           printf "$@"
           printf '\n'
         }
         exit 1
       }

bash does not report the syntax error and resumes interpretation, so that
as far as I understand, there is something to investigate here.


Best regards,
Michael