Philip TAYLOR writes:

David Kastrup wrote:

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It must be mentioned that one actually needs single-iteration for-loops for almost any useful variable manipulation. Quite intuitive.

P.S. About as "intuitive" as [con]cat[enating] a file with nothing in order simply to see it on the screen ...

Nobody does that in Unix and it would not change anything. The Cygwin "cat", in contrast, contains some hackery to interpret ANSI color sequences on Windows, since Windows, surprise, surprise, does not offer a standard-compliant console. In short: you are complaining about a workaround for a deficiency limited to Windows. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum