On Apr 01 2020, Krystian Wojtas via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell wrote:
> Making comments in pipes using command substitution is very helpful. > But there is syntax error it it is done just before while loop. Could it be > considered as bug? Not a bug. Reserved words are only recognized at the start of a command, before any expansions. For the same reason a compound command cannot be preceded by redirections. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."
