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

[alex xmb sw ratchev]

thank you ..

On Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 21:41 Zachary Santer <zsanter@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 3:05 PM Lawrence Velázquez <vq@larryv.me> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
> I imagine a backslash after "in" is also portable.
>
> for x in \
>   for bar baz
> do
>   printf '%s' "${x}"
> done
> echo
>
> That might look a little nicer.
>