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Bourne sh redirection, a loop variable, and ':'
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Ralf Wildenhues |
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Bourne sh redirection, a loop variable, and ':' |
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Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:45:52 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
Hello,
is this nice little Bourne shell quirk already known?
$ for i in 1 2 3 ; do : >x$i; done
$ ls
x1
It works when I use 'echo' instead of ':'.
Seen with Solaris 10 sh, but also some other old shells IIRC.
Cheers,
Ralf
- Bourne sh redirection, a loop variable, and ':',
Ralf Wildenhues <=