On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 12:30:10PM +0800, Alastair Irvine wrote:
>
> > cat /etc/debian_version
> 3.1
> > bash -c 'for i in {1..10} ; do echo $i ; done'
> {1..10}
>
> As mentioned by Daniel Pittman in a later reply, this isn't
> supported at all by shells other Bash and Zsh. (pdKSH anyone?)
pdksh, ksh on solaris or *bsd, old style bourne shell, dash etc:
for i in `seq 1 10` ; do echo $i ;done
Also it works on bash. Bashisms would be nice if they worked elsewhere
but then they wouldn't be bashisms. They're almost as bad as using c
shell...
Mark
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