Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:40:28 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> To: Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@izr.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sh for loop Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0107171935240.75003-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <20010717214314.A2960@drex.staff.izr.com>
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Mark Drayton wrote: :1 to 10 inclusive. I know I can use this: : :for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do : echo $i :done : :However, that's a pretty nasty way of doing it. I've seen a function :that will create the list "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10" but I can't for the :life of me remember what it is. I think it's something like (range 1 10) :or (list 1 10), but no amount of google searching has jogged my memory. for i in ` jot 10 1` do foo done will do what you want. Unfortunatly, jot doesn't exist on all Unixes, so if the script is to be portable, you should do it with shell math -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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