Hello, is this nice little Bourne shell quirk already known? $ for i in 1 2 3 ; do : >x$i; done $ ls x1 It works when I use 'echo' instead of ':'. Seen with Solaris 10 sh, but also some other old shells IIRC. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
