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From: dce@sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: "for i" broken?
Message-ID: <1989Nov14.160253.15975@sony.com>
Date: 14 Nov 89 16:02:53 GMT
Reply-To: dce@icky.sony.com (David Elliott)
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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It appears that the "for" construct in which no "in {list}" is
given does not appear to work.  (For those of you unfamiliar
with this construct, it imples "in {list of arguments}".)

	Script started on Tue Nov 14 07:58:30 1989
	icky 1>cat ft
	#!/mnt/dce/Src/bash-1.04/bash

	PATH=/bin:/usr/bin

	for i
	{
		echo "$i"
	}
	icky 2>./ft
	syntax error near `{'
	./ft:6: `{'

	syntax error near `}'
	./ft:8: `}'
	icky 3>
	script done on Tue Nov 14 07:58:41 1989

As a side question, Brian, are you collecting shell scripts to be
used as a regression/porting test suite with bash, like those which
come with gawk and perl?
-- 
David Elliott
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