On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:46:30AM +0200, Bernd Eggink wrote:
> Am 19.07.2010 08:30, schrieb Ken Irving:
> >On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:53:02AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
> >>
> >>from man bash, to define a function use;
> >>
> >>"function" "name"
> >> OR
> >>"name" ()
> >>
> >>right?
> >>
> >>And C
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 05:01:05PM -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> > Lastly since ^J is a newline you can generate one with echo "\n".
>
> What does work is either of these:
>
> $ echo ''
> $ echo -e -n '\n'
Or printf '\n'.
Or if he wants to use it in a command string, rather than producing it
on a
Bernd Eggink writes:
> "If the function reserved word is supplied, the parentheses are
> optional."
While the grammer has the right rules for this the handling inside of
special_case_tokens isn't right up to it, it only recognizes '{'
following 'function WORD'.
Andreas.
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Andreas Schwab,
Am 19.07.2010 08:30, schrieb Ken Irving:
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:53:02AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
from man bash, to define a function use;
"function" "name"
OR
"name" ()
right?
And Compound Commands are:
()
{; )
(( expression ))
[[ expression ]]
...et al
so why do I get
