The manpage still documents support for the historic almquist for-loop syntax, "do and done may be replaced with { and }". But it's not implemented anymore. I'm curious: when has it been removed? (I can't see it in the changelogs, and it seems to have gone between ash-0.3.8 and some earlier dash-0.4.x) Why am I asking? I was just curious and I stumbled over this because AFAIK dash is the only ash variant (well, except busybox) which has it removed; I guess simply due to POSIX, and because it had been everything but common usage anyway. Sven -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html