On Apr 27 2020, Dale R. Worley wrote: > So it seems the reserved rule is more accurately: > > Reserved words are words that have a special meaning to the > shell. The following words are recognized as reserved when > unquoted and either (1) where the first word of a simple command > could be (see SHELL GRAMMAR below), (2) the third word of a case, > for, or select command, the (3) first word of the body of a function > definition, or (4) after a semicolon or newline: > > IIUC there are two places where the documentation needs to be updated, > bash/doc/bash.1 and bash/doc/bashref.texi. But the above wording is a > lot more complex than I'd like. Does anyone have suggestions for a > clearer way to say this that is still accurate? > > ... Looking at this again, I think (1) and (3) can be replaced by "the > first word of a command (see SHELL GRAMMAR below)", which helps.
Isn't (4) also a subset of (1)? 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."
