Re: Question on $IFS related differences (Was: Question on $@ vs $@$@)

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Robert Elz wrote in
 <5996.1726697623@jacaranda.noi.kre.to>:
 |    Date:        Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:05:06 +0200
 |    From:        Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
 |    Message-ID:  <20240918210506.9rRUe2TG@steffen%sdaoden.eu>
 |
 || I am totally surprised they all swallow this code, there is no
 || separating whitespace in between the ; and the } which closes the
 || function -- isn't that invalid syntax even??
 |
 |';' is an operator, no white space needed to separate it from other
 |characters (unless the other characters would potentially form a
 |longer operator).

Woops.  I did not know that, i always separate {} at the beginning
an the end, yet not ().

  #?255|kent:steffen$ dash -c '{echo du;}'
  dash: 1: Syntax error: "}" unexpected

  #?2|kent:steffen$ dash -c '{ echo du;}'
  du

  #?0|kent:steffen$ bash -c '{echo du;}'
  bash: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `}'
  bash: -c: line 1: `{echo du;}'

  #?2|kent:steffen$ bash -c '{ echo du;}'
  du

 |kre
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--steffen
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