On 2013-03-16 19:33, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> Thanks -- good to know that there is a fast and POSIX compliant method of
> doing this. I should have included my optimized counting loop -- it's what
> we switched to when we realized that $(expr) was a problem. Here it is now:
>
> # This code performs quite well
> function BashCount() {
> i=$1
> while [ $i -gt 0 ]; do
> (( i-- ))
> done
> echo Just did $1 iterations using bash math
> }
> time BashCount 150000
For the record `function' and `((' are not POSIX.
Chris
