Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:34:40 +0100 From: Harald Dunkel <harald.dun...@aixigo.com> Message-ID: <fff15881-9ee7-ce68-6d86-daa81a7d6...@aixigo.com>
| at least due to unbalanced parenthesis? Greg's reply was correct, but he didn't explicitly address that point. In sh, characters like { } [ ] (but not ( and )) are just characters. In some scenarios they're required to be paired for things to work, but you can always simply use one (unquoted) anywhere there's a need. They don't have to balance in any way. Try: echo } before { It does exactly what it looks like it should do, and while omitting one of those braces will change the output (obviously) that's all it does. kre