On Feb 16 2021, Koichi Murase wrote: > Because the ending keywords---}, fi, done, and esac---are allowed to > be chained, which I think is undocumented though.
See 2.4 Reserved Words. This recognition shall only occur when none of the characters is quoted and when the word is used as: * The first word of a command * The first word following one of the reserved words other than case, for, or in * The third word in a case command (only in is valid in this case) * The third word in a for command (only in and do are valid in this case) Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."