A.4 Metacharacters for which coverage information is acquired

Coverage information is acquired only for command separators, not for other uses of metacharacters. The following table indicates the command separators for which coverage information is acquired.

Table A‒8: Command separators for which coverage information is acquired

Item	C0	C1
cmd_1;cmd_2	Y	N
cmd_1&&cmd_2	Y	N
cmd_1||cmd_2	Y	N

Note that no coverage information is acquired for metacharacters that are used for the following purposes:

• Comments

• Line continuations

• Variable substitutions

• Command substitutions

• File name substitutions

• Redirects

• Here documents

• Command groupings

• Other metacharacters

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