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On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 09:51:12PM +0700, pepa65 wrote:
> On 12/2/19 9:38 PM, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote:>      for dirpath do
> >          command mkdir -p "$dirpath" || return
> >      done
> It is very sad that the 'do' is not optional (non-backwards compatibility
> breaking feature request!), and it has to be the start of the next
> commandline (after ';' or the start of a new line), so:
> 
>     for dirpath
>     do command mkdir -p "$dirpath" || return
>     done

You're mistaken.

wooledg:~$ set -- a b c
wooledg:~$ for i do echo "$i"; done
a
b
c