Package: dash Version: 0.5.4-12 Severity: normal dash accepts the following syntax:
for i; do... but this is not correct POSIX syntax, as documented here: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02 where it says: for name [ in [word ... ]]do compound-list done Note that a semi-colon is required by the list syntax "word..." if an "in" clause is used, but is not required, or indeed permitted, otherwise. Accepting this syntax is nice for those of us used to bash, as it accepts this syntax, and its man page incorrectly says that the semi-colon is mandatory; but it is less good for those of us who rely on dash to catch POSIX compliance failures! (This bit me with /bin/sh on a Solaris system.) (I have reported the bug in bash's man page too. There's also a corresponding pair of syntax coloring bugs in Emacs's shell-script mode which I've also reported.) -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dash depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries dash recommends no packages. dash suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
