Finding the last arg
Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR
allbery at NCoast.ORG
Tue Jan 8 12:52:06 AEST 1991
As quoted from <443 at minya.UUCP> by jc at minya.UUCP (John Chambers):
+---------------
| as ad-hoc as the above example implies? Is there perhaps some logical
| structure underlying it all that would explain why
| for last do :; done
| and
| for last
| do :
| done
| both work but
| for last;do :;done
| doesn't?
+---------------
I suspect a /bin/sh bug. I just tried it on an ancient ksh and an almost-as-
old [ ;-) ] Xenix; Xenix sh barfed, but ksh accepted it. I'll try it under
System V 3.2 /bin/sh tomorrow.
++Brandon
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