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Old 07-02-2008
for loop sytax error
Hello folks,
I am relatively new to UNIX shell scripting but I have just written this small for loop script below:

var="100 300"
for ctr in ${var}
do
echo "$ctr --- $var"
done
exit 0

But when I am running the script I am getting the error below:
' unexpected: syntax error at line 4 : `do

Thanks a lot.
# 2  
Old 07-02-2008
use this:

for ctr in ${var[*]}
# 3  
Old 07-02-2008
Or even just
Code:
for ctr in $var

# 4  
Old 07-02-2008
Hello Spirtle,Gaurav,
Thanks a lot for your reply. I will definitely try out your solution. But I found out that the problem was because of the environment. When I exectued the same script in a different environment it just worked fine.
Thanks a lot.
 
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