On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 04:39:31PM +0530, kartik...@gmail.com wrote:
> Description:
> A while inside a while loop (nested while) doesnt work and also the vim /gvim
> doesnt highlight the second while loop
For issues with the vim/gvim highlighting, you'd need to report the
problem in vim, not in bash.
> example code is given
>
> while [ "ka" = $name ]
> do
> echo "nothing\n"
> while [ "ka" = $name ] //this while is not highlighted
> do
> echo "everything\n"
> done
> done
You have a quoting mistake here. "$name" should be quoted, or this will
fail if the variable contains multiple words separate by spaces.
imadev:~$ name="first last"
imadev:~$ [ "ka" = $name ]
bash-4.3: [: too many arguments
This code should work:
while [ "ka" = "$name" ]
do
printf "nothing\n\n"
while [ "ka" = "$name" ]
do
printf "everything\n\n"
done
done
(It goes into an infinite loop when name=ka, but presumably that's what
you wanted.)
