On Okt 14 2020, Martin Schulte wrote: > Consider the following script: > >>>> > #!/bin/bash > > echo "${x;:-}" ; echo "Not executed" > echo "Executed" > > echo "${x:-}" ;; echo "Not executed" > echo "Not executed" > <<< > > It just a source of problems that the two syntactical errors (both caused by > an extra semicolon) lead to different behaviour.
The difference being that the first error occurs during execution, while the latter occurs during parsing. The latter is also caught by bash -n. 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."