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From: thewalt@RITZ.ce.cmu.edu (Chris Thewalt)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: function or while bug?
Message-ID: <THEWALT.89Nov12114208@RITZ.ce.cmu.edu>
Date: 12 Nov 89 16:42:08 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,
	Pittsburgh, PA
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The following function gives a syntax error near done. In fact I have been
unsuccessful in doing an interactive while as well (but the again,
being a csh convert maybe I'm doing something wrong).

function foo
{
while test $# != 0
do	
    echo $1
    shift
done
}
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