Finding the last arg

[Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR]

As quoted from <443 at minya.UUCP> by jc at minya.UUCP (John Chambers):
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| as ad-hoc as the above example implies?  Is there perhaps some logical 
| structure underlying it all that would explain why
|  	for last do :; done
| and
| 	for last
| 	do :
| 	done
| both work but
| 	for last;do :;done
| doesn't?
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I suspect a /bin/sh bug.  I just tried it on an ancient ksh and an almost-as-
old [ ;-) ] Xenix; Xenix sh barfed, but ksh accepted it.  I'll try it under
System V 3.2 /bin/sh tomorrow.

++Brandon
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