Subject: bash-2.x
From: [email-masked] (Han-Wen Nienhuys)

23 Jul 1998 09:06:01 -0700
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To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[email-masked]>
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[email-masked] writes:
> Hi,
> 
> After all this trouble with bash, i downloaded bash-docs-2.02,
> and it says:
> 
>        for name [ in word; ] do list ; done
			   ^

> 
>     10:55:25 mub ~/ftp/gnu/bash-2.02$ for i in ;do echo $i; done
>     bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;d'
> 
> It looks like a bug in bash-2.02(-release)

I think that you have to take out the ;

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