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From: Sam Edge <sam DOT edgeZZZ AT lineone DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: behaviour of "for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done"
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 12:42:21 +0100
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"Peter Oosterlynck" <peter DOT oosterlynck AT oracle DOT com> wrote in
<PHENJGDFMJPEBOBLGEMOKENMCBAA DOT peter DOT oosterlynck AT oracle DOT com>
in gmane.os.cygwin on Tue, 27 May 2003 10:45:50 +0200:

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

The default shell on Linux is (usually) bash. More importantly /bin/sh
is simply a link to /bin/bash.

/bin/sh on Cygwin defaults to ash, a drop-in replacement for the
Bourne Shell. /bin/sh != /bin/bash.

Make sure that if your script uses Bash-specific features, it starts
with #!/bin/bash and not with #!/bin/sh. That way it'll work anywhere.

Regards,
-- 
Sam Edge

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