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In article <38C2B805.EA899C32@gorean.org>,
Doug Barton  <Doug@gorean.org> wrote:
> 
> 	Given that Bash in both standard and POSIX mode complains about 'for i
> in ; do echo $i; done', I would say that it's not POSIX compatible. What
> could/does depend on this behavior "working?"

It works for the realistic cases that might actually be useful.  E.g.,:

    x=
    for i in $x; do
	echo $i
    done

works fine.  I don't think it matters very much that the pathological
case "for i in ; ..." doesn't work.

John


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