Okay, all set here. Thanks to Paul and Mark for pointing out the problems, lack of double quotes and use of single quotes instead of back ticks.
See why I'm in sales? :) Chad On 17 Jul 2002 at 11:59, Mark Komarinski wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:48:15AM -0400, Chad R. Henry wrote: > > Okay, I admit I'm a total idiot, I just want a simple script that > > increments by 1 and outputs a string using the result. > > > > What I have is: > > > > count=1 > > while [ $count -lt 284 ] > > do > > count='expr $count + 1' > ` ` > > IOW, replace the single quotes with back quotes. > > -Mark > > ***************************************************************** To > unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > ***************************************************************** ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
