Re: IF statements on the command line in bash

[Thorsten Strusch <tst nc-ag de>]

  Hi Rodolfo,

"Rodolfo J. Paiz" wrote:
> 
>  From the "I must have missed something" department:
> 
> I often find myself needing to do simple, short if's or for's from the
> command line. However, I can't seem to get the hang of it. As an example,
> these two don't work:
> 
> $ for i in 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ; echo "Sep $i" ; done

  Whats about this:
  for i in `seq 9 255`; do mknod -m 660 "/dev/loop${i}" b 7 $i; done
 
  This creates more loopdevices and if you append max_loop=255 in your
  lilo.conf you can also use them ;-p
  (view: /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/loop.c)

  hth
	Thorsten