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From: "Peter Oosterlynck" <peter DOT oosterlynck AT oracle DOT com>
To: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: behaviour of "for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done"
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 10:45:50 +0200
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Tx for your reply Max,

Tried it with a Bourne shell (sh) on my Redhat AS2.1: works fine.
Tried it with a Bourne shell (sh) in cygwin : fails.

Works fine with bash on both platforms.

My workaround: added "#!/usr/bin/bash" in my cygwin script.

Peter.


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