GOTO(1)                     General Commands Manual                    GOTO(1)

NAME
       goto - transfer command

SYNOPSIS
       goto label [...]

DESCRIPTION
       Goto is allowed only when the shell is taking commands from a seekable
       command file (see lseek(2)).

       The entire command file is searched for a line beginning with a : as
       the first non-blank character, followed by one or more blanks, and then
       the label.  If such a line is found, goto repositions the command-file
       offset to the line after the label and exits.  This causes the shell to
       transfer to the labelled line.

       : is a special command which causes the shell to do nothing.

EXIT STATUS
       The goto command exits with one of the following values:

       0      The label was found.

       1      The label was not found.

       2      An error was detected.

SEE ALSO
       if(1), etsh(1), tsh(1)

       Etsh home page: https://etsh.nl/

COMPATIBILITY
       The goto command from Version 6 (V6) UNIX requires : to be the first
       character on the labelled line.  Otherwise, the label cannot be found.

       This port differs in that : may be preceded by blanks.  This allows
       labelled lines to be indented so that complex command files might be
       easier to read and understand.

HISTORY
       A goto command appeared as /bin/goto in Version 3 (V3) UNIX.

AUTHORS
       This port of the goto command is derived from Version 6 (V6) UNIX
       /usr/source/s1/goto.c.  It was written by Ken Thompson of Bell Labs.
       Jeffrey Allen Neitzel <jan@etsh.nl> ported and maintains it as goto(1).

LICENSE
       See either the LICENSE file which is distributed with etsh or
       https://etsh.nl/license/ for full details.

etsh-5.4.0                      March 28, 2019                         GOTO(1)