Re: Undocumented for-loop construct

2020-08-07 Thread Chet Ramey
On 8/6/20 10:29 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote: > Klaas Vantournhout writes: >> Recently I came across a surprising undocumented bash-feature >> >>$ for i in 1 2 3; { echo $i; }; >> >> The usage of curly-braces instead of the well-documented do ... done >> construct was a complete surprise to me and

Re: Undocumented for-loop construct

2020-08-07 Thread Chet Ramey
On 8/6/20 5:50 PM, Klaas Vantournhout wrote: > Dear Bash-developers, > > Recently I came across a surprising undocumented bash-feature > >$ for i in 1 2 3; { echo $i; }; > > The usage of curly-braces instead of the well-documented do ... done > construct was a complete surprise to me and eve

Re: Undocumented for-loop construct

2020-08-06 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
> On Aug 6, 2020, at 10:29 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote: > > Klaas Vantournhout writes: >> Recently I came across a surprising undocumented bash-feature >> >> $ for i in 1 2 3; { echo $i; }; >> >> The usage of curly-braces instead of the well-documented do ... done >> construct was a complete su

Re: Undocumented for-loop construct

2020-08-06 Thread Dale R. Worley
Klaas Vantournhout writes: > Recently I came across a surprising undocumented bash-feature > >$ for i in 1 2 3; { echo $i; }; > > The usage of curly-braces instead of the well-documented do ... done > construct was a complete surprise to me and even lead me to open the > following question on