Re: Bug: please document extended and alternate for loop syntax

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/7/25 9:23 AM, John Wiersba via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again 
SHell wrote:
> In all versions of bash since 2001 (e.g. 5.1.16(1)-release), the following syntax 
> works but is not documented:$ for (( i=0; i<3; ++i )) { echo $i; }
> 0
> 1
> 2

The group command as loop body syntax only exists for compatibility with
historical versions of the Bourne shell (where it is likewise
undocumented). Its use is not encouraged, and POSIX doesn't specify it,
so it's not portable.

Chet
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