Re: [FWP] Fun with POD

[Robin Houston <robin@kitsite.com>]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 02:41:10PM +0200, Abigail wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 01:34:08AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> > 
> > :() { : | : } ; :
> 
> That doesn't compile. Perhaps you meant:
> 
>   :(); { :: | :: } ;

I suspect he meant

    :() { : | : ;} ; :

(define a recursively-forking bash function called ':', and call it)

although the original will probably work in version 1 of bash, which
is less strict about requiring a semi-colon before a "}".

Fun with bash! :-)

 .robin.

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