Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 12:04:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Lee J Carmichael <lcarmich@wamnet.com> To: David Smithson <david@customfilmeffects.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How do I repeat a command N times? Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.1020709115845.295966F-100000@y.dev.wamnet.com> In-Reply-To: <004201c22769$8468df70$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com>
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The 'for' loops in bash, ksh, sh don't do the c-style for processing, these are more perl like loops (iterate through a list of thingys like (a b c). BTW, the loop below needs to be changed slightly for bash, here is the bash version: let x=0 let stop=607 while [ $x -le $stop ] do echo $x let x=$x+1 done Damn bash... -------- Lee Carmichael Service Architect - WorkSpace WAM!NET Inc. 655 Lone Oak Rd Building A Eagan, MN 55121 ph# 651-256-5292 email: lcarmich@wamnet.com On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, David Smithson wrote: > Aha. A FOR loop? > > > For ksh: > > > > let x=0 > > let stop=607 > > > > while [[ $x -le $stop ]] > > do > > # whatever you'd like > > echo $x > > let x=$x+1 > > done > > > > I guess you could make 'x' to 'n'... ;) > > > > Take Care, > > > > > Hello friends. I want to repeat a command 607 times and stop. How do I > > > accomplish this besides writing a script that's 607 lines long? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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