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behaviour of "for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done"
- From: "Peter Oosterlynck" <peter dot oosterlynck at oracle dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 09:56:37 +0200
- Subject: behaviour of "for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done"
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?
Thanks in advance,
Peter.
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