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If you received this e-mail in error, please delete it from your system and notify sender.</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div>-----Original Message-----<br />From: "Piegorsch, Weylin William" <weylin@bu.edu><br />Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 2:03 AM<br />To: Jean Benoit <jean@unistra.fr><br />Cc: "Gauthier, Chris" <cgauthier@comscore.com>, Michael Newton <mnewton@pofp.com>, Vacheslav Zouhairy <m_zouhairy@skno.by>, "rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net" <rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net><br />Subject: Re: [rancid] Unable to figure out "end of run not found"<br /><br />> you can even put redirects<br /><br />That's a neat trick!!! I'll have to remember that one; thanks!<br />__<br /><br />weylin<br /><br />On 6/17/19, 5:27 PM, "Jean Benoit" <jean@unistra.fr> wrote:<br /><br /> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 09:05:13PM +0000, Piegorsch, Weylin William wrote:<br /> > I actually don't use the semicolon.<br /> > Not sure if this is bash specific, sh specific, or posix general, but<br /> > without the semicolon it sets the global environment variable only for the<br /> > duration of that command following the variable definition, and unset it<br /> > upon returning control to the cli. See also your "export" comment, which<br /> > has correlating implications regarding environment vs namespace vs scope.<br /> > But I'm not an experienced programmer, and don't pretend to grok the<br /> > various nuances, benefits, and pitfalls known by those who actually know<br /> > what they're doing, so if using the semicolon is better I all ears.<br /> <br /> You are right: ; is not necessary.<br /> <br /> NOPIPE=yes rancid -d -t type devicename<br /> <br /> is is a perfectly valid syntax according to POSIX Shell Grammar Rules.<br /> It works with bash, dash, ksh, zsh and other shells.<br /> <br /> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fpubs.opengroup.org%2fonlinepubs%2f9699919799%2futilities%2fV3_chap02.html%23tag_18_10_02&c=E,1,pVeiRZ33eh0bANTtrPcyWLXgDYYcEhv1fVgAMKs-rqhpxiQGGKwtaHnc1ENunuBCFwIl6XJo0fGwJdkcHgduuUt2gpDkO7h_-c4J99skKxG0vy0,&typo=1 <br /> see "simple_command" syntax and rule 7, which defines "ASSIGNMENT_WORD".<br /> <br /> simple_command : cmd_prefix cmd_word cmd_suffix<br /> | cmd_prefix cmd_word<br /> | cmd_prefix<br /> | cmd_name cmd_suffix<br /> | cmd_name<br /> <br /> cmd_prefix : io_redirect<br /> | cmd_prefix io_redirect<br /> | ASSIGNMENT_WORD<br /> | cmd_prefix ASSIGNMENT_WORD<br /> <br /> You don't need the ; and you dont need export, and you can even put<br /> redirects, as long as assignments are before the command.<br /> Example :<br /> XYZ=foo </tmp/x >/tmp/y A=1 B=bar mycommand myarg<br /> <br /> -- <br /> Jean<br /> <br /><br /><br /></div></body></html>