On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 07:05:38PM +0100, Ramsay Jones wrote: > The infinite loop is caused by the loop variable increment > expression, which looks something like this: > > : $((i = $i + 1)) || return > > [...] > > The reason for the RFC is that I don't understand why (apparently) > I'm the only person seeing this failure; I suspect that a newer > version of bash than I have does not have this problem (ie the > original arithmetic expansion actually works). dunno :-( Yeah, that syntax is handled just fine by my bash and dash: $ cat >foo.sh <<'EOF' i=1 : $((i = $i + 1)) echo $i EOF $ bash foo.sh 2 $ bash --version | head -n 1 GNU bash, version 4.1.5(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) $ dash foo.sh 2 But I think your i=$(($i + 1)) is the right solution. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html