Re: Help with for loop

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Ed Shaw <address@hidden> writes:

  es> test:
  es>   for i in one two three; do echo "$i"; done

  es> So, the shell program works and echos out one two three.  The make file
  es> echos out 3 blank lines.  Why?

The "$i" is being interpreted as the make variable "i", which you have
not set.

Whenever you want a dollar sign ($) to appear in a script, you have to
escape it by using two of them:

    teat:
            for i in one two three; do echo "$$i"; done

See the GNU make manual for more details.

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