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Re: Set verbose Flag Inside if-block
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Set verbose Flag Inside if-block |
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Sun, 16 Apr 2023 16:08:56 -0400 |
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On 4/16/23 2:24 PM, Sysadmin Lists wrote:
That's not what's happening. Breaking up that command line into newlines shows
the bug. The first version should echo everything inside the if-statement
after the
'set -ve' but doesn't.
It should not.
It's treating the entire if-block as a single command.
The if command is a single compound command that is read and parsed in its
entirety before any of it is executed.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
Re: Set verbose Flag Inside if-block, Sysadmin Lists, 2023/04/17