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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
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Subject: Re: sh: case .... ==> ;; esac <==
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Date: 15 Jun 90 21:38:37 GMT
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In article <1990Jun15.024859.4097@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>,
	chet@cwns1.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey) writes:
)In article <MEISSNER.90Jun11115342@curley.osf.org>
)	meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes:
)
)>| Bash 1.05 auto inserts the ;; as you can see:
)
)>I know it inserts it.  It should not give the error message -- after
)>all, I may be piping stderr to someother program, and the bash is just
)>a subshell.  The error message is bogus.
)
)Said error message will be gone in the next release, I think.

According to POSIX 1003.2 _and_ the V7 Bourne shell + most followups
the final `;;' can be omitted, as it should.
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