On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Dave B <dave...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Friday 09 October 2009, Pierre Gaston wrote: > > > > Repeat-By: > > > printf '%s\n%s\n' foo bar | while read NAME; > > > echo NAME=$NAME > > > do > > > echo blah > > > done > > > > Not sure what is the incorrect syntax, and it seems normal that it goes > > into an infinite loop since echo is always true. > > Well, it seems to me (and as stated in the bug report) that a "do" should > follow the "while read NAME;". > > the while syntax is like this: "while list; do list; done" and the manual says "A sequence of one or more newlines may appear in a list instead of a semicolon to delimit commands." so you can have:
while command command do (the ; in the definition is probably there to keep the definition on one line, you can replace the ; in all the other definitions by a newline like: if command then This also works the same way in the other shells. For me it's not a bug.
