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From: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sieb=F6rger?= <drs@rucus.ru.ac.za>
To: Lee J Carmichael <lcarmich@wamnet.com>
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Subject: Re: How do I repeat a command N times?
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On Tue 2002-07-09 (12:04), Lee J Carmichael wrote:
> 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

bash has a for loop:

        for (( x=0 ; x<=607 ; x++ )) ; do
            echo $x
        done

There's no need to involve Perl in a simple problem like this.


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David Siebörger
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