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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Understand Bash scripting encryption Post 302236297 by broli on Monday 15th of September 2008 09:12:05 AM
Old 09-15-2008
In that particular case, the "in" word is a reserved word.
someone, while developing bash, decided to make it so.
the loop structure requires some special words to fit in all the options.
"for" is a reserved words that tells bash, a loop is about to be "declared"
the next param, is the variable that bas will use to hold the step
in tells bash that the next thing is the list to go trough. one loop for each object. on each iteration, the current value is asigned to the variable after the for but before the in
(all this is in the link frankling posted)

that "kid smashing the keybord" is caled "fork bomb"
is a clever way to name functions with weird names (like : ), more data here
Fork bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

but the advanced bash scripting guide is very very good, and im sure it has most of what you want.
 

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BASHBUG(1)						      General Commands Manual							BASHBUG(1)

NAME

       bashbug - report a bug in bash

SYNOPSIS

       bashbug [--version] [--help] [email-address]

DESCRIPTION

       bashbug	is  a shell script to help the user compose and mail bug reports concerning bash in a standard format.	bashbug invokes the editor
       specified by the environment variable EDITOR on a temporary copy of the bug report format outline. The user must fill  in  the  appropriate
       fields  and  exit  the  editor.	 bashbug  then	mails the completed report to bug-bash@gnu.org, or email-address.  If the report cannot be
       mailed, it is saved in the file dead.bashbug in the invoking user's home directory.

       The bug report format outline consists of several sections.  The first section provides information about the  machine,	operating  system,
       the  bash  version, and the compilation environment.  The second section should be filled in with a description of the bug.  The third sec-
       tion should be a description of how to reproduce the bug.  The optional fourth section is for a proposed fix.  Fixes are encouraged.

ENVIRONMENT

       bashbug will utilize the following environment variables if they exist:

       EDITOR Specifies the preferred editor. If EDITOR is not set, bashbug defaults to emacs.

       HOME   Directory in which the failed bug report is saved if the mail fails.

       TMPDIR Directory in which to create temporary files and directories.

SEE ALSO

       bash(1)

AUTHORS

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