Re: strange bash behavior

[Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu>]

Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> writes:
>
> Interesting.  If "break" appears out of context, you should get
> an error message something like:
>
>    bash: break: only meaningful in a 'for', 'while', or 'until' loop
>
> You didn't get an error message, so part of bash thinks it is in context.
> Yet it did not exit the loop.  It seems to me that you should get one
> behavior or the other.  Either you should get an error message or it
> should exit the loop.

Good point -- it is odd that it isn't giving the error message.