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Re: empty `for' loop in shell
From: |
Keith MARSHALL |
Subject: |
Re: empty `for' loop in shell |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:13:15 +0100 |
Stepan Kasal wrote:
> is it true that
>
> a= ; for f in $a; do ... done
>
> is not interpreted correctly by some shells?
There was some discussion on a related problem, on one of the
MinGW fora, a couple of months back. In a *Makefile*
LIST =
some-target:
for i in ${LIST}; \
do \
some commands; \
done
doesn't work; a possible workaround is to say
for i in ""${LIST};
But, that's a subtly different problem -- your example works fine
for me in bash, and in SunOS 5.5 sh.
Regards,
Keith.