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| author | Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> | 2011-12-29 13:08:05 -0500 |
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| committer | Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> | 2011-12-29 13:08:05 -0500 |
| commit | f4f5e1c2b8fa4539e367e1f48774183d349184c5 (patch) | |
| tree | e15b178ddcd2d8fa88dd4384fc970067afa69f57 /doc/bash.1 | |
| parent | bfd181e794d5bd9d351af55a10081bc728c4496d (diff) | |
| download | bash-f4f5e1c2b8fa4539e367e1f48774183d349184c5.tar.gz | |
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@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ .\" Case Western Reserve University .\" chet@po.cwru.edu .\" -.\" Last Change: Mon Apr 11 16:56:54 EDT 2011 +.\" Last Change: Mon May 9 12:23:35 EDT 2011 .\" .\" bash_builtins, strip all but Built-Ins section .if \n(zZ=1 .ig zZ .if \n(zY=1 .ig zY -.TH BASH 1 "2011 April 11" "GNU Bash 4.2" +.TH BASH 1 "2011 May 9" "GNU Bash 4.2" .\" .\" There's some problem with having a `@' .\" in a tagged paragraph with the BSD man macros. @@ -646,7 +646,10 @@ AND and OR lists is the exit status of the last command executed in the list. .SS Compound Commands .PP -A \fIcompound command\fP is one of the following: +A \fIcompound command\fP is one of the following. +In most cases a \fIlist\fP in a command's description may be separated from +the rest of the command by one or more newlines, and may be followed by a +newline in place of a semicolon. .TP (\fIlist\fP) \fIlist\fP is executed in a subshell environment (see |