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Unable to do a for loop in "here document"


From: Mr Aras
Subject: Unable to do a for loop in "here document"
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 20:44:47 -0700 (PDT)

Hi,

I've been trying to do a "for loop" in a "here document" but the variable is
never assigned to the items in the list.

e.g.

#!/bin/sh
sh <<-EOF
for word in hello world
do
        echo word = $word
done
EOF

output is:
word =
word =


Can someone tell me why this doesn't work? I've been going nuts trying to
figure this one out.


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