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From: ramon@convex.com (Ramon Dominguez)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: shell bug
Keywords: Bourne shell bug
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.215706.14339@convex.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 21:57:06 GMT
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In article <50556@bcsaic.UUCP> paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen) writes:
=>While working my way through the perl 4.0 Configure script, I
=>discovered that the Minix shell chokes on a construct like:
=>
=>	for n do
=>	  whatever
=>	done
=>
=>It complains about a syntax error.

It _is_ a syntax error.  You need a newline or a semicolon between the last
word of the wordlist and the "do" keyword.  This allows the wordlist to contain
the word "do".

--ramon