Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:39:47 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> If you precede a reserved word with a variable assignment, it's not
> recognized as a reserved word.

Thank you for your explanation. This never occurred to me. I did try 
to rtfm about this before posting, but didn't find anything.  Until now:

"The following words are recognized as reserved when unquoted 
and  **the first word** of a command"

Thanks again.



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