Re: null word list in for loops in bash-2.05.8 not allowed

[Carlos Puchol]

got it. will upgrade. thanks!

btw, the solution you propose:

--- Paul Jarc <prj@po.cwru.edu> wrote:
> Assuming SOMETHING doesn't contain single quotes:
> var='$(SOMETHING)'; for i in $var; do ...; done

does not work. the loop is issued once, with $i
having the empty string.
zero is a nice number, like any others, and should be respected :-)

-c

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C. Puchol <cpg@rocketmail.com>

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