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Re: Misleading syntax in manual
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Misleading syntax in manual |
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Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:44:09 -0400 |
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Eric Blake wrote:
> You missed word... (the ... is important). To keep it on one line, I'd
> represent the bash syntax as:
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> for name [ in [ name ... ] ; | ; ] do
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> to show that bash supports four varints: 'in ;', 'in name... ;', ';', or
> blank.
I prefer
for name [ [in [word ...] ] ; ] do
Chet
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