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System User's Guide: Operating System and Devices


Reserved Words in the Korn Shell or POSIX Shell

The following reserved words have special meaning to the shell:

!         case    do
done      elif    else
esac      fi      for
function  if      in
select    then    time
until     while   { 
}         [[      ]]

The reserved words are recognized only when they appear without quotation marks and when the word is used as the:


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