Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: [minor] for/select parsing inconsistency Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 11:16:52 -0500 Organization: ITS, Case Western Reserve University Lines: 20 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <23fa7751-26d5-fe5b-32ca-84866bc27150@inlv.org> Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1544372225 27703 208.118.235.17 (9 Dec 2018 16:17:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu To: Martijn Dekker , Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:reply-to:cc:subject:to:references:from:openpgp :autocrypt:organization:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; 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Since 'select' is basically a glorified 'for', it seems to > me that they should parse the same way. > > $ bash -c 'for x in; do :; done' > $ bash -c 'select x in; do :; done' > bash: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `;' > bash: -c: line 0: `select x in; do :; done' > $ bash -c 'foo=; select x in $foo; do :; done' Thanks for the report. I'll take a look and fix it for bash-5.0-rc1. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/