Re: is a for .. do list newline sensitive ?

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2023, at 2:32 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> It is not a bug; if present, the word list may not be preceded by
> a line break.

If for some reason you *really* want to keep the variable and word
list on separate lines, you can break before "in".  This is portable.

        % cat example.sh 
        for x
        in foo bar baz
        do
                printf %s "$x"
        done
        echo
        % bash ./example.sh 
        foobarbaz
        % dash ./example.sh 
        foobarbaz
        % ksh ./example.sh 
        foobarbaz
        % mksh ./example.sh 
        foobarbaz
        % oksh ./example.sh 
        foobarbaz
        % yash ./example.sh 
        foobarbaz
        % zsh --emulate sh ./example.sh 
        foobarbaz

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