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

[Chet Ramey]

bashbugreport-ta@durchnull.de wrote:

> Bash Version: 3.1
> Patch Level: 11
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> 
> In other shells (like bash 3.0, bash 2.x, zsh, dash),
> 
>     for VARIABLE; do ...; done
> 
> is equivalent to
> 
>     for VARIABLE in "$@"; do ...; done

And it is in bash, too.  When this has been reported in the past, it
has been due to a bug in the version of bison used to generate the
parser from parse.y.  I cannot remember the exact version of bison
that's at fault, and can't easily find it right now, but that is the
culprit.

Chet
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