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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 14:25:16 +0600 (NS)
From: Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
To: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: empty lists in for
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hi, there!

On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Chris Costello wrote:

>    ksh doesn't claim to be POSIX compliant?
> 
>     "ksh is intended to conform to the Shell Language Standard
>      developed by the IEEE POSIX 1003.2 Shell and Utilities Language
>      Committee."
>                                    -- http://www.kornshell.com/info/
> 
>    And on a FreeBSD-compiled binary of the real AT&T ksh code:
> 
>      $ echo ${.sh.version}
>      Version M 1993-12-28 i
>      $ for i in ; do echo $i; done
>      $ 

However, under Solaris 2.6:
clone$uname -a
SunOS clone 5.6 Generic_105181-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1-Engine
clone$/bin/ksh
clone$for i in ; do echo $i; done
/bin/ksh: syntax error: `;' unexpected
clone$

/fjoe



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