Mark Drago [off-list ref] writes:
This semicolon is technically required by bash and indeed caused a syntax error
on a system that I came across running, an admittedly very old, bash-2.04.0.
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Command-Grouping
Signed-off-by: Mark Drago <redacted>
Thanks; it is not specific to bash. At the end of compound_list before
the Rbrace at the end of brace_group, a separator is required.