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Case-Part: Pattern) Command-List Pattern: Word Pattern - Word Else-Part

This document defines meta-characters and reserved words used in command syntax and patterns for a programming language. It describes syntactic symbols like pipe, and, or symbols and command separators. It defines patterns used to match characters including wildcards. It also mentions substitution.

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Case-Part: Pattern) Command-List Pattern: Word Pattern - Word Else-Part

This document defines meta-characters and reserved words used in command syntax and patterns for a programming language. It describes syntactic symbols like pipe, and, or symbols and command separators. It defines patterns used to match characters including wildcards. It also mentions substitution.

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& digit &case-part: pattern ) command-list ;; pattern: word pattern | word else-part: elif command-list then command-list else-part

else command-list empty empty: word: a sequence of non-blank characters name: a sequence of letters, digits or underscores starting with a letter digit: 0123456789

Appendix B - Meta-characters and Reserved Words


a) syntactic | pipe symbol && `andf' symbol ||

`orf' symbol ; command separator ;; case delimiter & background commands () command grouping < input redirection << input from a here document > output creation >> output append b) patterns * match any character(s) including none ? match any single character [...] match any of the enclosed characters c) substitution

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