Re: greps pipes and eval bad patterns

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/26/2015 07:30 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Oct 26,  6:36am, Ray Andrews wrote:
> }
> } Question: Why can't we have nothing on the right side?
>
> Because then you have an incomplete command, syntax-wise.  You can write
>
>      echo the command starts here |
> 	sed s/start/end/
I see, the interpreter would continue on the next line. Yeah, that's a 
necessary thing without the mandatory ';' as in C.  The one exception 
that I can think of, as we've discussed, is that you can't:

echo true
&& next_command

... which is too bad.