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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 21:06:28 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: net release/installer status?
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Chris Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 09:45:59PM -0600, Mumit Khan wrote:
> >On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Chris Faylor wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I don't see a syntax error.  It seems to be legal to have:
> >>
> >>      for f ; in stuff; do
> >>
> >> I don't know why you're seeing an error.  Is the above command an error
> >> on your system?
> >
> >Same here. Bash, pdksh, ash, the real ksh from AT&T, all handle this
> >correctly.
> 
> I think that this is broken in older bashes.
> 
> cgf

Hmm, I get this output of bash --version:

/home/corinna$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Corinna