behaviour of "for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done"

[Max Bowsher]

Peter Oosterlynck wrote:
> When using a line like "for (( i=1 ; i<=5 ; i+=1 )); do echo $i; done" in
a
> bash script one expects to get a list of figures ranging from 1 to 5
right?
> I've never had problems with such constructs on my Linux machine but when
> doing this in a cygwin bash shell, then it works fine when typed in at the
> command line but fails with a syntax error "Bad for loop variable" when
> executed in a script.
>
> Where did I go wrong? Ideas anybody?


/bin/sh != bash


Max.


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