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Old 06-23-2009
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Hi.
Quote:
{ list;}
list is simply executed. Note that unlike the metacharacters (
and ), { and } are reserved words and must occur at the begin-
ning of a line or after a ; in order to be recognized.

-- excerpt from man ksh
Note the space after the opening curly brace... cheers, drl