> On Feb 17, 2021, at 10:27 PM, Dale R. Worley <wor...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > Lawrence Velázquez <v...@larryv.me> writes: >>>> `;;' is optional for the last case item. >>> >>> The manual page (for my version) says it's required. If, in some >>> certain circumstances, it works without, that's nice. >> >> It's also required by POSIX. > > Ah, now that's different. Has the current man page been updated to > match?
No. https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Conditional-Constructs.html#index-case Bash has permitted omitting the final ;; since the beginning (more or less). I assume the documentation omits that detail for a reason -- perhaps to discourage its use. vq
