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Re: Clarify cases of implicit and explicit line continuation

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  Re: Clarify cases of implicit and explicit line continuation Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-06-05 09:17 -0400

#14221 — Re: Clarify cases of implicit and explicit line continuation

On 6/4/18 10:20 PM, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>> The general rule is simple: bash reads input a line at a time, feeding
>> each line to the parser, until it has enough input for a complete
>> command. If it doesn't have enough to complete a command, it will read
>> additional lines. If a newline would complete a command, you need to
>> quote it to prevent it being interpreted as such.
> 
> Yes that is all understood. All I'm requesting for is for this
> behaviour to be *documented* in the manpage.

I understand. I don't think it adds much to the documentation to describe
in such basic terms the fundamental operation of the shell: that it reads
lines from its input source until it assembles a complete command, then
executes it. This is just what shells do.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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