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
