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From:	"Peter Oosterlynck" <peter DOT oosterlynck AT oracle DOT com>
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Subject:	behaviour of "for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done"
Date:	Tue, 27 May 2003 09:56:37 +0200
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When using a line like "for (( i=1 ; i<=5 ; i+=1 )); do echo $i; done" in a bash script one expects to get a list of figures ranging from 1 to 5 right? 
I've never had problems with such constructs on my Linux machine but when doing this in a cygwin bash shell, then it works fine when typed in at the command line but fails with a syntax error "Bad for loop variable" when executed in a script.

Where did I go wrong? Ideas anybody?

Thanks in advance,

Peter.


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