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Date:	Tue, 27 May 2003 10:05:47 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: behaviour of "for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done"
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On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:56:37AM +0200, Peter Oosterlynck wrote:
> 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?

Yes, you're using the `for' as in a tcsh.  bash has not csh but sh syntax.
Try `man bash'.

Corinna

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