Talk:Bourne Shell Scripting/Control flow

I've nominated this module for deletion since its contents are now included in Bourne Shell Scripting/Control flow. -- BenTels (talk) 13:16, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Explanation of curly braces in Command grouping section
It says they don't do anything but require peculiar syntax without giving anything back.

What they do is concatenate the stdout of the commands on the enclosed list, which can be further redirected to either a file or a command.

Here is an example showing how curly braces can help one append or prepend some text to the stdout of a command (crontab here), and redirect the whole thing to another command (again crontab), all without using a temporary file:

--Gkirilov (discuss • contribs) 20:19, 31 October 2013 (UTC)