Re: syntax error when setting variable in front of "while"

On 8/8/10 10:17 PM, mfwit...@gmail.com wrote: > Interestingly, according to: > > info bash 'Basic Shell Features' 'Shell Commands' Pipelines > > we have: > > A `pipeline' is a sequence of simple commands separated > by one of the control operators `|' or `|&'. Sorry, the `simple' should

Re: syntax error when setting variable in front of "while"

Dennis Williamson wrote: > while is a compound command. Only simple commands can have preceding > variable assignments. From man bash: Thanks. I just found out that I can get away with > while IFS=$'\t' read a b; do echo "$a" "$b"; done

Re: syntax error when setting variable in front of "while"

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Ralf Goertz wrote: >> Bash Version: 4.0 >> Patch Level: 35 >> Release Status: release >> >> Description: >> >> I am used to setting variables in front of a command >> like in >> >>> LANG=C man mplayer >> >> However, I get a "bash: syntax error near unexpected >> tok

Re: syntax error when setting variable in front of "while"

while is a compound command. Only simple commands can have preceding variable assignments. From man bash: The environment for any simple command or function may be augmented temporarily by prefixing it with parameter assignments, as described above in PARAMETERS. These assignment statement