On 9/6/24 11:44 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
Bash Version: 5.2 Patch Level: 32 Release Status: releaseDescription: The following command does not error out, in spite of a semicolon missing before "then": $ if [[ x ]] then :; fi Previous versions (e.g. 4.4.23) used to report an error: bash: syntax error near unexpected token `then'
POSIX says that construct, even though the particular compound command isn't part of the standard, should be accepted. Here's the report about it, from a discussion about a broader topic: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2021-02/msg00140.html All shells that implement [[...]] (bash/ksh/mksh/zsh) behave this way. Bash changed in version 5.2. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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