Re: is a for .. do list newline sensitive ?

[alex xmb sw ratchev]

thank you ..

On Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 21:05 Lawrence Velázquez <vq@larryv.me> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 14, 2023, at 2:32 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> > It is not a bug; if present, the word list may not be preceded by
> > a line break.
>
> If for some reason you *really* want to keep the variable and word
> list on separate lines, you can break before "in".  This is portable.
>
>         % cat example.sh
>         for x
>         in foo bar baz
>         do
>                 printf %s "$x"
>         done
>         echo
>         % bash ./example.sh
>         foobarbaz
>         % dash ./example.sh
>         foobarbaz
>         % ksh ./example.sh
>         foobarbaz
>         % mksh ./example.sh
>         foobarbaz
>         % oksh ./example.sh
>         foobarbaz
>         % yash ./example.sh
>         foobarbaz
>         % zsh --emulate sh ./example.sh
>         foobarbaz
>
> --
> vq
>