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Re: behaviour of "for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done"


"Peter Oosterlynck" <peter.oosterlynck@oracle.com> writes:

> When using a line like "for (( i=1 ; i<=5 ; i+=1 )); do echo $i;
> done" in a bash script one expects to get a list of figures ranging
> from 1 to 5 right?  I've never had problems with such constructs on
> my Linux machine but when doing this in a cygwin bash shell, then it
> works fine when typed in at the command line but fails with a syntax
> error "Bad for loop variable" when executed in a script.
>
> Where did I go wrong? Ideas anybody?

This works for me on all bash environments. Keep strong the syntax.

Harald

--- for example ---
#! /bin/bash

for (( i=1; $i < 10; i=$i+1)); do
  echo $i
done
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