Re: [Solved] Re: Difficulty with a shell function.

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Mon 26 Jan 2026 at 08:02:34 (+0100), tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> Another suggestion, more aesthetic: the semicolons at the end of
> the lines are unnecessary. You only need one when putting two
> lines together (as a replacement for a newline). For a reader of
> your script they are confusing.

I agree with the aesthetics, but readers might as well get used to
at least /seeing/ them, as type-ing a function adds them back in.

> (A place where you might see it is in the construction
> 
>   if <condition> ; then
>     do this
>     ...
> 
> But you already separated the "if" and "then" by a newline, which
> is perfectly fine, too.

And as it happens, type will turn:

  if <condition>
  then

into:

  if <condition>; then

anyway. Ah well.

Cheers,
David.