Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:58:48 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@izr.com>, bill <bill@maine.60north.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sh for loop Message-ID: <15188.57160.799562.343400@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <52572270@toto.iv>
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Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@izr.com> types:
> Hi
> As part of a shell script I need to write a for loop that iterates from
> 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
bill <bill@maine.60north.net> types:
> I would do this...
> INC=`expr $INC + 1`
> cheers!
Personally, I'd use jot:
for i in `jot 10`
do
echo $i
done
See the jot man page for more information.
<mike
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