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From: "Philip M. Gollucci" <gollucci@wam.umd.edu>
To: David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com>
Cc: The Almonds <cjalmond@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Newbie-Simple C Shell programming help
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you could always use the shell command repeat

i.e.

repeat 100 w

which will run w 100 times... not a very useful example.

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On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, David Kirchner wrote:

> 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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