Subject: "for" behaviour in /bin/sh
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Johnny Chi-Lung Lam <jlbg+@andrew.cmu.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 07/12/1998 20:31:28
In NetBSD's /bin/sh, the following snippet executes without error:
for f in ; do echo $f; done
But in /bin/sh on SunOS and HP-UX, I get the following error:
syntax error: `;' unexpected
Which is the correct behaviour?
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Johnny C. Lam
Department of Statistics lamj@stat.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/
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