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From: v882087@si.hhs.nl
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: shell bug
Message-ID: <57433@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 91 10:00:51 GMT
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In article <9106280203.AA09940@mcsun.EU.net> you write:
>
>It complains about a syntax error.  My V7 documentation says
>that "for n do" is equivalent to "for n in $@ do".  "$@" expands
>to the entire argument list, or "$1 $2 $3 ...".  I changed
>
>it worked fine.  This looks like a bug to me.  I didn't spend
>any time trying to fix it, 'cause it was so much easier to just
>patch Configure.  :-)
>

If this is a bug, I can only say it is a bug in your V7 documentation. I
have never ever seen a UNIX(like) shell that accepted the for .. do
construction without a semicolon (";")

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