Re: Unable to do a for loop in "here document"

2008-07-09 Thread Stephane Chazelas
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 08:44:47PM -0700, Mr Aras wrote: [...] > #!/bin/sh > sh <<-EOF > for word in hello world > do > echo word = $word > done > EOF > > output is: > word = > word = > > > Can someone tell me why this doesn't work? I've been going nuts trying to > figure this one out. [

Unable to do a for loop in "here document"

2008-07-08 Thread Mr Aras
Hi, I've been trying to do a "for loop" in a "here document" but the variable is never assigned to the items in the list. e.g. #!/bin/sh sh <<-EOF for word in hello world do echo word = $word done EOF output is: word = word = Can someone tell me why this doesn't work? I've been going