Re: semicolon at beginning of line

[Steven W. Orr]

On 4/7/2012 4:00 PM, Elliott Forney wrote:
> I wish bash would happily execute lines that begin with a semicolon,
> i.e., treat it as a no-op followed by a command.  The following
> examples come to mind:
>
> $ infloop&  echo hello
> [2] 11361
> hello
> $ infloop&; echo hello
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
>
> $ echo hello; echo world
> hello
> world
> $ echo hello;; echo world
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;;'
>
> $ ; echo hello world
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>    Elliott Forney

Just use a colon.

: echo Hello world.

I use it all the time to 'park' a command in my history. Then when I'm ready, I 
just back up to it and remove the colon.


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