stupid bash tricks (how to loop on the command line)

[John Summerfield]

Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA) wrote:
> 
> 
>> ... got the shell to do looping without creating a file. 
> 
> Just type it in...
> 
> bash-3.2$ i=0; while [ $i -lt 10 ]; do echo $i; i=`expr $i + 1`; done
> 
i=0; while [ $i -lt 10 ]; do echo $((i++)); done


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