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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 |