From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 9 10:13:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A64AB37B401 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:13:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rotini.customfilmeffects.com (rotini.customfilmeffects.com [66.134.82.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FF1D43E3B for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:13:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@customfilmeffects.com) Received: from ethel (ethel.customfilmeffects.com [192.168.1.8]) by rotini.customfilmeffects.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g69H11R08366 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:01:01 -0700 Message-ID: <006801c2276b$f703f1d0$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> From: "David Smithson" To: "FreeBSD-Questions" References: Subject: Re: How do I repeat a command N times? Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:13:37 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wow! So many options. Perl returns: "Badly placed ( " My shell is csh CSH returns "let: arith: syntax error: 'x=+1'" , yet continues and works. What's with the error? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message