Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <002901c32427$2e1553e0$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Peter Oosterlynck" , References: Subject: Re: behaviour of "for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done" Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 09:08:38 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Cam-ScannerAdmin: mail-scanner-support@ucs.cam.ac.uk X-Cam-AntiVirus: Not scanned X-Cam-SpamDetails: 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? /bin/sh != bash Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/