RE: bash -n doesn't seem to catch all syntax errors...

[Ken Failbus]

Thanks for your reply. That would certainly help. 

Regards,
Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Chet Ramey [mailto:chet.ramey@case.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:51 PM
To: Ken Failbus
Cc: Andreas Schwab; bug-bash@gnu.org; chet@case.edu
Subject: Re: bash -n doesn't seem to catch all syntax errors...

Ken Failbus wrote:
> So how can bash script syntax be verified that includes shopt???
> Is there more option on bash syntax command-line check that would make
it identify this grammar???

One uses the `-O' invocation option to enable and disable shopt options
at
execution time.  You would use `bash -O extglob -n scriptname'.

Chet
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