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I am trying the following command in a shell script, but it is giving me an error:

    $ i3 for_window [class="Gvim"] floating enable

    =&gt; [{"success":false,"parse_error":true,"error":"Expected one of these tokens: &lt;end&gt;, '[', 'move', 'exec', 'exit', 'restart', 'reload', 'shmlog', 'debuglog', 'border', 'layout', 'append_layout', 'workspace', 'focus', 'kill', 'open', 'fullscreen', 'split', 'floating', 'mark', 'unmark', 'resize', 'rename', 'nop', 'scratchpad', 'mode', 'bar'","input":"for_window [class=Gvim] floating enable","errorposition":"^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^"}]"]'"}]

Please help me find out what is wrong here.
</description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2013 08:20:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2806/using-for_window-in-shell-script/</guid></item><item><title>Comment by Michael for &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;i3 version 4.6 (2013-08-07, branch "tags/4.6")&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am trying the following command in a shell script, but it is giving me an error:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ i3 for_window [class="Gvim"] floating enable

=&amp;gt; [{"success":false,"parse_error":true,"error":"Expected one of these tokens: &amp;lt;end&amp;gt;, '[', 'move', 'exec', 'exit', 'restart', 'reload', 'shmlog', 'debuglog', 'border', 'layout', 'append_layout', 'workspace', 'focus', 'kill', 'open', 'fullscreen', 'split', 'floating', 'mark', 'unmark', 'resize', 'rename', 'nop', 'scratchpad', 'mode', 'bar'","input":"for_window [class=Gvim] floating enable","errorposition":"^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^"}]"]'"}]
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Please help me find out what is wrong here.&lt;/p&gt;
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