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

[Randall R Schulz]

Peter,

Make sure your scripts explicitly state /bin/bash as their shell. The 
default shell (i.e. /bin/sh) under Cygwin is ash, not BASH. It produces 
the diagnostic you mention when given that command.

Randall Schulz


At 00:56 2003-05-27, 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?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Peter.


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