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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Confusion about FOR LOOP syntax between Bourne and BASH shell. Please see. Post 302572548 by navienavnav on Thursday 10th of November 2011 09:32:39 AM
Old 11-10-2011
Data Confusion about FOR LOOP syntax between Bourne and BASH shell. Please see.
Code:
for (( i=1; i<=3; i++ )); do
for (( j=1; j<=3; j++ )); do
for (( k=1; k<=3; k++ )); do
echo $i$j$k
done
done
done

Will the above code work on a BOURNE shell?

As far as my understanding is, if I am writing the above code in a file..say lol.sh and then running it through the terminal using the command

sh lol.sh

then I am using the Bourne Shell. Am I right with this concept?

If yes, then the above code won't run (as I tried to run it) BUT it runs when i run it as...

bash lol.sh

So my question is that :

1. Am I correct that sh lol.sh will run it using bourne shell ?

2. And can for loop be written in the way it's written in the code above in the bourne shell or
Code:
for i in 1 2 3

is the only possible syntax of for loop in the bourne shell?
 

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paps

PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME

       paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango

SYNOPSIS

       paps [options] files...

DESCRIPTION

       paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves
       through the pango ft2 backend.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with  two  dashes  (`-').   A  summary  of  options	is
       included below.

       --landscape
	      Landscape output. Default is portrait.

       --columns=cl
	      Number of columns output. Default is 1.
	      Please notice this option isn't related to the terminal length as in a "80 culums terminal".

       --font=desc
	      Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12.

       --rtl  Do right to left (RTL) layout.

       --paper ps
	      Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter and A4. Default is A4.

       Postscript points
	      Each postscript point equals to 1/72 of an inch. 36 points are 1/2 of an inch.

       --bottom-margin=bm
	      Set bottom margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --top-margin=tm
	      Set top margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --left-margin=lm
	      Set left margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --right-margin=rm
	      Set right margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --gutter-width=gw
	      Set gutter width. Default is 40 postscript points.

       --help Show summary of options.

       --header
	      Draw page header for each page.

       --markup
	      Interpret the text as pango markup.

       --lpi  Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing.

       --cpi  Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size.

       --stretch-chars
	      Indicates  that  characters  should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops
	      behaviour.

AUTHOR

       paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								  April  17, 2006							   PAPS(1)
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