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Subject: Re: Help Understanding While Loop
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On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 02:48:19PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> OK, I've been working on an sh script and I'm almost there.  In
> the script, I created a 'while read' loop that is doing what I
> want.  Now I want to keep track of how many times the loop
> executes.  Thus I included this line between the 'while read' and
> 'done' statements:

> count = $(( count + 1 ))
             ^^^ 

You're missing something here ;)

    $ count=1
    $ echo $count
    1
    $ count = $(( $count +1 ))	# note: 'count ='
    count: not found
    $ ^[[A^C
    $ count=$(( $count + 1 ))	# note: 'count='
    $ echo $count
    2

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