Re: Fwd: for VAR; do does not work any more on some platforms

[Paul Eggert]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> Bash 3.1 currently violates POSIX in that 'for V ; ...' does not behave
> like 'for V in "$@" ; ...'.  As evidenced from this snippet of a report on
> bug-bash, it affects autoconf.

I don't observe the problem; see below.  Can you please give more
details about how to reproduce it?

bash-3.1$ set a b c
bash-3.1$ for i
> do echo "$i"
> done
a
b
c
bash-3.1$