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Command Language

Recall that Oil is composed of three interleaved languages: words, commands, and expressions.

This doc describes commands, but only the things that are not in:

• A Tour of the Oil Language
• The #command-lang section of OSH Help Topics
• The #command-lang section of Oil Help Topics

POSIX Shell Constructs

• Bourne-style shell functions f() { echo hi; }
• "Direct" shell blocks like { echo hi; }
• Redirects like >&

Bash / ksh Constructs

Still Useful

• The time keyword. Yes, it's a keyword, not a builtin!

Deprecated

• [[ and ((
• for (( )) loops
• More redirects like &>
• Here docs like <<-