excuting commands with { }

[mummaneni]

Hi everybody,

I have read that commands which will be excuted in between curly braces ({ }) will be executed in the current shell only.

But I am getting the following error...
# {pwd;ls;}
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `}'

What would be the problem. Please help me..

Thanks Inadvance,
Mummaneni.

[devils casper]

# {pwd;ls;}

there should be a space after { and between ; and }.

{ pwd;ls; }