Re: "break" inside a while-condition

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/11/12 10:40 AM, Philippe Wang wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>   "break" keyword inside a while-condition doesn't work as expected : it 
> breaks the wrong loop.
> 
> 
> Repeat-By:
>   # 1) should raise a parsing error  (but it doesn't)
>   while break ; true ; do true ; done 
> 
>   # 2) should break the outer loop  (but it doesn't)
>   while true ; do while break ; do whatever-because-never-reached ; done ; 
> echo fail ; done

No.  Bash implements both of these correctly.

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