From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: greps pipes and eval bad patterns
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 07:49:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <562E3D90.2010701@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <151026073045.ZM14674@torch.brasslantern.com>
On 10/26/2015 07:30 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Oct 26, 6:36am, Ray Andrews wrote:
> }
> } Question: Why can't we have nothing on the right side?
>
> Because then you have an incomplete command, syntax-wise. You can write
>
> echo the command starts here |
> sed s/start/end/
>
>
I see, the interpreter would continue on the next line. Yeah, that's a
necessary thing without the mandatory ';' as in C. The one exception
that I can think of, as we've discussed, is that you can't:
echo true
&& next_command
... which is too bad.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-26 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-25 19:47 Ray Andrews
2015-10-26 1:02 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-10-26 1:17 ` Kurtis Rader
2015-10-26 3:39 ` Ray Andrews
2015-10-26 3:31 ` Ray Andrews
2015-10-26 13:04 ` ZyX
2015-10-26 13:36 ` Ray Andrews
2015-10-26 14:30 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-10-26 14:49 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
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