On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 08:06:11AM -0700, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote:
|| Suppose a user wants to make shell function such as this.
|| cpST () { cp Source Target }
|| The shell is waiting for a command so it can't be typed
|| directly at the prompt.
Yes, it can.
|| This also doesn't work.
|| peter@dalton:~$ dash -c "cpST () { cp Source Target }"
|| dash: 1: Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting "}")
The closing } is only recognized where a new command could have
started. Terminate your command with a semicolon.
cpST () { cp Source Target; }
In your scripts, the } is probably on a new line: the newline before it
then terminates the command:
cpST(){
cp Source Target # <- newline terminates command
}
Vincent.
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