On 4/5/21 5:06 AM, Greywolf wrote:

but if you want to go down that track, it's kind of interesting to note
that {} on a single line demands a ; before the }, while () prohibits
it.

This isn't true:

$ ./bash -c '(echo a b c;)'
a b c

but it is the case that } is a reserved word, while ) is an operator.


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