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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Finding the last arg
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.015206.25214@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 8 Jan 91 01:52:06 GMT
References: <1990Dec27.060903.1604@onion.pdx.com> <1020@mwtech.UUCP> <443@minya.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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As quoted from <443@minya.UUCP> by jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers):
+---------------
| as ad-hoc as the above example implies?  Is there perhaps some logical 
| structure underlying it all that would explain why
|  	for last do :; done
| and
| 	for last
| 	do :
| 	done
| both work but
| 	for last;do :;done
| doesn't?
+---------------

I suspect a /bin/sh bug.  I just tried it on an ancient ksh and an almost-as-
old [ ;-) ] Xenix; Xenix sh barfed, but ksh accepted it.  I'll try it under
System V 3.2 /bin/sh tomorrow.

++Brandon
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