"Thomas Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Greg Wooledge:
> > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/chap2.html#tag_001_009_004_002
> > First, the list of words following in will be expanded to generate a list
> > of items. Then, the variable name will be set to each item, in turn,
> > and the compound-list executed each time. If no items result from the
> > expansion, the compound-list will not be executed.
>
> Looks like these POSIX specs have been interpreted differently
> by the shell developers in the past.
>
> On the SuSE 6.x system:
>
> $ bash --version
....
The problem with bash is that it is definitely not POSIX compliant.
There are many deviations from POSIX in bash. If you like to know more,
ask David Korn.....
Jörg
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