Re: null word list in for loops in bash-2.05.8 not allowed

[Paul Jarc]

Carlos Puchol <cpg@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> --- Paul Jarc <prj@po.cwru.edu> wrote:
>> Assuming SOMETHING doesn't contain single quotes:
>> var='$(SOMETHING)'; for i in $var; do ...; done
>
> does not work. the loop is issued once, with $i
> having the empty string.

No, that would happen if $var were double-quoted.  But it isn't.


paul