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anderskaseorg on March 3, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Elegant Bash Conditionals

There’s a typo on this line; a semicolon or newline is required before }:

    -[ $EUID -ne 0 ] && { echo You must be root; exit 1 }
    +[ $EUID -ne 0 ] && { echo You must be root; exit 1; }

cb321 on March 3, 2021 [–]

And also the same typo on the more general line just above what @anderskaseorg mentions (i.e. `{ expr }`) which should read `{ expr; }` (or line breaks instead of leading space/ trailing ';', etc. Such quirky syntax.)

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