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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: behaviour of "for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done" References: From: Harald.Maier.BW@t-online.de (Harald Maier) Reply-To: Harald Maier Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 08:08:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Peter Oosterlynck's message of "Tue, 27 May 2003 09:56:37 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Sender: 320041125923-0001@t-dialin.net "Peter Oosterlynck" writes: > 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? This works for me on all bash environments. Keep strong the syntax. Harald --- for example --- #! /bin/bash for (( i=1; $i < 10; i=$i+1)); do echo $i done ------------------- -- 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/