On 8/30/26 7:44 PM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
Similarly, newline+«)» gets recorded as «; )», though - somewhat surprisingly - that's actually accepted as input.
Not surprising. The `)' is an operator that ends the subshell (or whatever) command containing the command terminated by the `;'.
(The Shell seems a bit haphazard in where an empty command is acceptable.
There's no empty command there.
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