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Re: [opensuse] silly girls' cli copy problem
- From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 15:22:32 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709011522200.11617@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Sep 1 2007 15:19, jdd wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> On Sep 1 2007 12:34, primm wrote:
>> > On Saturday 01 September 2007 10:13
>> > > rsync -AHPSXav --exclude=members * members/;
>> > What does the semicolon do at the end?
>>
>> End the statement, like in Perl?
>
> bash separator, optional if only one command
Well, 'end of statement' fits better. And, like in Perl, it is optional
if it is the only command within a block. Actually, most newlines in
shell are taken as an implicit ; even.
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