On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:46:16AM +0100, Dave B wrote:
> On Friday 09 October 2009, Pierre Gaston wrote:
>
> Uhm, on a more accurate reading you're probably right. The POSIX syntax for
> while is
>
> while compound-list-1 do
> compound-list-2
> done
>
> And "read NAME; echo NAME=$NAME" is
On Friday 09 October 2009, Pierre Gaston wrote:
> > Well, it seems to me (and as stated in the bug report) that a "do" should
> > follow the "while read NAME;".
>
> the while syntax is like this:
> "while list; do list; done"
> and the manual says "A sequence of one or more newlines may appear in
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Dave B wrote:
> On Friday 09 October 2009, Pierre Gaston wrote:
>
> > > Repeat-By:
> > >printf '%s\n%s\n' foo bar | while read NAME;
> > >echo NAME=$NAME
> > >do
> > >echo blah
> > >done
> >
> > Not sure what is the incor
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 lo
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:06 PM, wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i586
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc -I/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-4.0
> -L/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-4.0/../readline-6.0
> Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTT
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i586
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc -I/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-4.0
-L/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-4.0/../readline-6.0
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i586'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYP
