Hello,

is this nice little Bourne shell quirk already known?

$ for i in 1 2 3 ; do : >x$i; done
$ ls
x1

It works when I use 'echo' instead of ':'.

Seen with Solaris 10 sh, but also some other old shells IIRC.

Cheers,
Ralf


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