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From: David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com>
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Subject: Re: Newbie-Simple C Shell programming help
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, The Almonds wrote:

> All,
>
> I am trying to run a program via a c shell 100 times
> for a stress test.
>
> I have
> #!/bin/sh
>
> for 1 in 1 2 3
>
> do
>
> x
>
> done
>
> as you can see this is painful if I want to do 100.
> Anyone know of a quick way to do this for 100 loops.

Others have pointed out the sh and csh way to do this, but I just thought
I'd also mention the "jot" program, which is pretty spiffy. You could then
do, in sh:

for i in `jot 100`
do
	whatever
done

If you wanted to do every other number (ie 0 2 4 6 8) you'd do:

for i in `jot 100 0 100 2`
do
	whatever
done

Check out man jot for details.


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