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This patch is from Brian Fox, in reply to an email message from
"Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl>, who wrote:
I think that bash should accept such a syntax:
for var in ; do command; done
Of course it should do nothing. It would simplify some scripts.
Here is a patch for those who wish it:
*** parse.y.~1~ Wed Mar 4 09:39:46 1998
--- parse.y Mon Jul 13 14:40:23 1998
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*** 495,500 ****
--- 495,504 ----
{ $$ = make_for_command ($2, REVERSE_LIST ($5, WORD_LIST *), $9); }
| FOR WORD newline_list IN word_list list_terminator newline_list '{' compound_list '}'
{ $$ = make_for_command ($2, REVERSE_LIST ($5, WORD_LIST *), $9); }
+ | FOR WORD newline_list IN list_terminator newline_list DO compound_list DONE
+ { $$ = make_for_command ($2, (WORD_LIST *)NULL, $8); }
+ | FOR WORD newline_list IN list_terminator newline_list '{' compound_list '}'
+ { $$ = make_for_command ($2, (WORD_LIST *)NULL, $8); }
;
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