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From: rac@sherpa.UUCP (Roger Cornelius)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: { and } with for in /bin/sh
Keywords: for do done
Message-ID: <237@sherpa.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 90 01:55:32 GMT
Organization: Personal System Computing,  St. Petersburg, FL
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I recently came across some sh code which uses { and } instead of
do ... done in a for loop.  I've never seen this documented in any sh
or ksh man page, so should it therefore be considered non-portable?
When was this introduced and why isn't it documented?

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Roger A. Cornelius           rac@sherpa            uunet!sherpa!rac