Hi,
thanks for your reply:

Bash-Version:

Code:

/bin/bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.1.5(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)

OS: Lubunut 9.10

Editor: gedit 2.30.3

Copy/paste method: I used the middle mouse button and also to cut: crtl+c and to paste ctrl+shift+v

I tried the following again:

Code:

	for j in 1 3 5
	do
		echo $j
	done

This worked.

Then I tried:

Code:

for i in 1 2 3
do
	for j in 1 3 5
	do
		echo $i
		echo $j
	done
done

This didn't work and I got the same error as described above.

And afterwards the first (unnested) loop didn't work either.

Thanks for your help J