Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.4.125-eca6

[Philip Rowlands]

On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:

> somehow, my shell (/bin/ksh) doesn't like the { ... } syntax here:
>
>  $ cd src && { touch a b; mode3=2755; ./ginstall -Cv -m$mode3 a b }
>  >
>
> it waits for the command to be continued ... I can't see why

That's not quite valid (POSIX) sh, which requires a ";" following every 
command.

> Replacing the { ... } by ( ... ), it prints this:
>
>  $ cd src && ( ./touch a b; mode3=2755; ./ginstall -Cv -m$mode3 a b )
>  removed `b'
>  `a' -> `b'

This does the same thing but uses a subshell, which makes no difference 
in this example.


Cheers,
Phil