Antonio Macchi wrote: > what's the rasonable limit in using this "compact" contruct, after which > the for (( i=0; i<1000...; i++ )) became better?
You didn't even bother trying eh?
$ for i in {0..1000000000}; do echo $i>/dev/null; done
bash: xmalloc: ../../../bash/lib/sh/stringvec.c:40: cannot allocate
8000000016 bytes (0 bytes allocated)
$ for ((i=0;i<=1000000000;i++)); do echo $i>/dev/null; done
